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Not really.

For many customers of hardware and software trust is what is being sold.

As trust is eroded 'good enough' is no longer good enough. The only way to continue to be trusted is to be more secure, and as the grandparent points out the endgame there is that the encryption puts the software and hardware beyond the reach of the company that produced it.



While the majority could not care less, and would be more than happy to sell out their own privacy for a "safer" world.




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