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Don't you know the Fourth Amendment?:

>The right of large business enterprises to be secure in their employees, locations, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the large business enterprises or things to be seized.

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They broke the 4th Amendment into 300 million pieces, lied about it to congress, got caught by Snowden, got locked out by the nerds, and now they don't merely want back in, they want a key to the back door for the express purpose of continuing to break the rules they swore to uphold! The mind boggles.

Who do I (continue to) donate to in order to express my opinion that this is inexcusable? EFF?

The dialogue has been dual monologues for so long that buying more strongly-worded letters is unlikely to help anyone but the ink-sellers.

Donate directly to the open-ecosystem cryptographers, and seek a technical solution whenever a political solution is impossible.

EFF, Demand Progress, and FFTF are great ones

And by extension the FSF and free software in general.

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