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		xj9 on Sept 6, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Disagreeing with Bruce Schneier: More Crypto is No... `Many people who download illegally would never dream of stealing from a store.` Copyright infringement and theft are two entirely different things.

theboss on Sept 6, 2013 [–]

So is breaking into someones house to steal papers and passive eavesdropping. But the results are the same. You still end up with data you didn't have before

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