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		swores on May 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The FBI took -- and mysteriously returned -- thei... If you were the FBI, and you had a backdoor already built into the software running on that server, would you really confiscate it and take four days to use it rather than leaving it running and hoping nobody notices you came by to activate it, and/or having it be activated over the network?

cnbeuiwx on May 11, 2012 [–]

The server was probably not running Windows.

swores on May 11, 2012 | [–]

Was replying to "are now using a backdoor in the encryption".

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