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kube-system on April 8, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy,...

Not an expert, but I searched and found this link which seems to explain it well:

https://www.freshfields.com/en-us/our-thinking/campaigns/dig...

tl;dr: encryption is not completely illegal, but it sounds like it's pretty tightly controlled.

dontbenebby on April 8, 2020 [–]

I didn't think they'd be foolish enough to completely ban it.

They're not comically evil, they just have certain incentives.

Key escrow meets those goals.

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