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People want safety. People want security. These are inextricably intertwined, but Wray thinks it's possible to separate one from the other without a net loss in safety. And he can't even be honest about how he plans to do it. No one on this panel is willing to call the back doors they want "back doors." No, it's always something else. If the front door is the user's access to their communications, anyone coming in through another entrance is likely going to be viewed as using the back door. If the FBI prefers, we could just call it "using the bedroom window." It doesn't really matter what it's called when it's still access to encrypted communications that's achieved by going through anyone else but the end user.

Wray says everyone else -- everyone who doesn't immediately agree the security trade-off the FBI is pitching is worth it -- is wrong. We're allying ourselves with the most heinous criminals and actively thwarting law enforcement. We're all Wray's straw men now.

The point stands: it's confusing

The scripts, called the "Willoughby-Hoye" scripts after their authors—Patrick Willoughby and Thomas Hoye of the University of Minnesota—were found to return correct results on macOS Mavericks and Windows 10. But on macOS Mojave and Ubuntu, the results were off by nearly a full percent.