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> Why can't we have both security as well as court ordered access.

Waterboarding was treated as a crime by the US during WW2:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#World_War_II

And then conveniently it was not a crime after 9/11:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#Classification_i....

Access to the escrowed keys may also be conveniently reclassified in the future.

And that assumes that the law is even followed: you can't trust that the "court ordered access" will remain only court ordered. Law enforcement agencies have violated laws in the past as a matter of policy:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO



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