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Strong non-backdoored encryption is vital – but the Feds should totally be able to crack it, say House committees

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Re: Summed Up Quite Well

Last I checked, the fingerprint code is in hardware and separate from the GPL stuff. Compartmentalized, IOW, so all the GPL software is clean but the fingerprints are added on top and in a way that can't be bypassed (thus why it's in hardware).

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