Reply to post: Re: Open source?

France mulls tighter noose around crypto

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Re: Open source?

"Surely, these proposals will just change the apps used by criminals to a multitude of open source alternatives that are easily checked for backdoors?"

Eventually someone will notice they forgot to add "ban open source software" to the list. That wouldn't stop criminals from using it of course, but that doesn't appear to be the point.

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