<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Apr 15, 2016, at 5:05 PM, Tom Mitchell <<a href="mailto:mitch@niftyegg.com">mitch@niftyegg.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Henry Baker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hbaker1@pipeline.com" target="_blank">hbaker1@pipeline.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">FYI --<br>
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Exclusive: Canadian Police Obtained BlackBerry’s Global Decryption Key</blockquote><div>....</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Imagine for a moment that everybody’s front door has the same key. Now imagine that the police have a copy of that key, and can saunter into your living room to poke around your belongings while you’re out, and without your knowledge.<br></blockquote><div><br></div>In the US this risks the "exclusionary rule”.</div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>In theory perhaps, in practice not so much. There are a lot of ways around the exclusionary rule, including parallel construction (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction</a>) and the good faith exception.</div><div><br></div><div>rg</div><div><br></div></body></html>