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0 pointstome1y ago0 comments

Perhaps you got thrown by the double negative?

> I don't believe there are any western nations that want non-locally-backdoored messaging of any sort

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> I believe every western nation wants all messaging to be locally-backdoored

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No, it doesn't?

tomeOP1y ago

Thanks, yes, I should have said

> I believe no western nation wants any messaging to be non-locally-backdoored

tomeOP1y ago

Actually, this seems to be the clearest way of getting rid of negatives:

> I believe all western nations want all messaging to be free of remote backdoors

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No, it doesn't?

tomeOP1y ago

Thanks, yes, I should have said

> I believe no western nation wants any messaging to be non-locally-backdoored

tomeOP1y ago

Actually, this seems to be the clearest way of getting rid of negatives:

> I believe all western nations want all messaging to be free of remote backdoors

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse