Did the FTC just subtly admit that the US Government doesn't need weakened encryption or backdoors because... They can just break it and they don't want other countries to be able to lobby so they can too? You always have to read between the lines with stuff like this... Archive: https://archive.today/Tj2EY From the post: >>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning major U.S. tech companies against yielding to foreign government demands that weaken data security, compromise encryption, or impose censorship on their platforms. FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson signed the letter sent to large American companies like Akamai, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Cloudflare, Discord, GoDaddy, Meta, Microsoft, Signal, Snap, Slack, and X (Twitter). Ferguson stresses that weakening data security at the request of foreign governments, especially if they don't alert users about it, would constitute a violation of the FTC Act and expose companies to legal consequences.