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phene on June 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Encrypted Chat Developer Detained, Interrogated at...

If it's open source, why would the agents be asking what algorithms it uses? I'm calling bullshit on this article and the tweets.

sashahart on June 7, 2012 [–]

If it is like the interrogation I have gotten from developed countries outside the US, they are asking questions about what you do and what brings you to their country, and the questioning can be somewhat adversarial. Which nobody likes.

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