FBI's crypto backdoor plans require them to win the war on general purpose computing

The silliest part of all is that bad guys have been using slang and in-jokes for centuries. That’s cryptography, and it’s also impossible to ban.

Also, if the message is short, even an extremely simple cypher is unbreakable. If the NSA has a voice conversation, that’s a ton of data there, but if you can issue orders to your minions in 140 characters, there’s simply not enough information to begin cracking.

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