Eric wrote:
>
> >I am first generation American.
>
> You make some good points. There are benefits to privacy. Are they enough
> to surmount the burdens? I don't know. There is a right answer, I guess.
> But I suppose that it is not truth that will reign here. Rather, I suspect
> popular opinion/Congressional opinion. It's interesting that no one (that I
> have seen yet) has made a constitutional argument here. Some say privacy is
> guaranteed by the constitution guarantees privacy. That could have been a
> fun one.
Yes, that is true.
Some agencies have even gone so far as to classify encryption as a
munition, in order to prevent its export, in which case I think a US
citizens right to own it should also be protected under the 2nd
amendment as well...
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