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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Even more generally than that, remember that daemons are fallen angels and that same thing happens outside the metaphorical world.

So even if the mathematics allowed it, once something is out and being use with backdoored encryption sooner or later the "bad guys" will have the means to use it if only because of human nature.