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Very disturbing.

Of course, a secondary point is that there's a hidden human rights cost to law enforcement's demands on communications companies. Even if you have the touching faith that your country's law enforcement agencies always acts in a proper and upright manner, the whole world ain't free. Some brutal and oppressive governments are going to get their hands on the same functionality if we make companies include it.

Funny how we object to companies selling to these bad countries - while we are happy to prop up the same bad countries by buying their oil/gas.