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Not necessarily, Australia has a law allowing the government to compel software devs to add backdoors and gag them to prevent people hearing about the backdoors.

https://scarff.id.au/blog/2023/state-actors-can-add-a-backdo...



While Russia doesn't need laws for that. You just get arrested for something else (e.g. planted drugs) and then tortured in detention.




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