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[–] [email protected] 116 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (25 children)

I took the liberty of reading the article but I'm gonna say the title is quite... tendentious. Makes it sound like it's yet another one of those FUD / nutjob clickbait that have been coming at the privacy community for a few days with sensationalist titles such as "The CIA will stop funding Signal" (never has been) or "FBI wants to sell Wikipedia" (never has been).

What is going on?

EDIT: Cosmic Cleric has provided the definition of "tendentious", which I have linked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"When did you stop beating your wife?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Completely off-topic but I recall a lawyers TV show back in the day where the response to this joke was something like:

"About at the same time you stopped beating yours"

Which would have been interesting to see how that would have worked at the court. Can't remember the show alas, but it was probably The Practice (a late 90s show I think, predecessor to Boston Legal).

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