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>To make use of these keys, the FBI would have to manually input all 2,560 characters, and one incorrect keystroke in this laborious process would render the FBI collection system incapable of collecting decrypted data

That would take an intern less than an hour to digitize. Maybe three interns if you needed redundancy. This seems like a completely useless action on Levison's part since it end up giving the FBI the information they wanted but will still piss them off.



Probably he was confident that they were too lazy to do it, and infact they didn't but just whined..


at font size 4 this is infeasible. He might have introduced a single error somewhere for good measure.




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