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“In total, there are more than 150 questions related to the issue of encryption and digital practices in the investigation file.”

La Quadrature du Netlaquadrature.net ↗

Seven people face terrorism charges in France, and the file treats Signal, Tor, Tails and a lockdown privacy workshop as evidence. One DGSI sentence about “clandestine behaviour” shows up more than a hundred times, copied by every magistrate on the case. Investigators asked for “logins and passwords for Tor”, which do not exist. If installing Linux with disk encryption makes you a terrorist suspect, the French state just described every competent sysadmin.