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While I don't believe many people in government are "evil" or have "bad intentions," I'm a strong believer that _systemic_ or _institutional_ evil is possible. Thus, the wide opposition to mandatory key escrow, just as civil libertarians of all stripes would oppose mandatory tatooing of national I.D. barcodes on arms, or the mandatory retro-fitting of all homes with special curtains containing a police-accessible "transparency mode."

And the vision of 1984 looms ever closer. Pity you guys guessed....your activites have put us 12 years behind schedule to date, and we're not happy about that. --NSA