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An Anonymous Coward writes:

Government officials haven’t stopped complaining about how the rise of encryption is becoming an ever-growing problem that’s threatening to make life harder for investigators trying to catch criminals and terrorists.

But the little official data that’s publicly available keeps countering that narrative. [vice.com] Once again, for the second straight year, the number of times state or federal wiretaps that encountered encryption decreased, though cops and feds couldn’t break encryption in more cases (11) than ever, according an annual government report called Wiretap Report.

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