Why would a ban on encryption be a bad thing?

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Published on Apr 26, 2016

There's been a lot of talk recently about banning strong encryption, adding backdoors, and enforcing compliance with government requests.

It's unclear how these bans could be enforced, but as a mental exercise, let's say it did happen somehow. What might the consequences be? Obviously, no-one can predict the future, but here are a few thoughts and assumptions based on similar things that have happened.

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