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law enforcement is so bass-ackward on privacy/security tools

Of course, if a hammer is for sale, some will use it to build houses and a subset will use it to hurt people. Just because something can possibly be bad doesn't mean we shouldn't have it



But if law enforcement’s data suggests to Mozilla that something like 60%+ of Send’s uses are for malicious purposes, what benefit do they have in continuing to make it available?

I’m all for privacy, but I wouldn’t support my tool being used predominantly for criminal activity, no matter how good I feel about it as a security/privacy tool.




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