>>>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/30/holder-urges-tech-companies-to-leave-device-backdoors-open-for-police/
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>>>Same old story. How boring. :(
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>>I remember the controversy over the Clipper chip. Hard to believe it was 20 years ago.
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>Quis custodit custodes?

No kidding.

>I mean, with my eastern german origin, I have a clear idea how well sounding laws could be read.

I think I'll coin a new phrase, "TOTC-washing". Like greenwashing in the environmental field, it would mean appealing to the safety of children in order to make something nasty appear more acceptable.

There are other precedents:

- the "Think of the Children 2" thread I started earlier

- the Canadian federal government, from a couple of years ago: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/14/online-surveillance-bill-critics-are-siding-with-child-pornographers-vic-toews/