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How the FBI got everything it wanted (re-air, feat. Joseph Cox)

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For decades, digital rights activists, technologists, and cybersecurity experts have worried about what would happen if the US government secretly broke into people’s encrypted communications.

The weird thing, though, is that it's already happened—sort of.

US intelligence agencies, including the FBI and NSA, have long sought what is called a “backdoor” into the secure and private messages that…