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@@ -1479,7 +1479,7 @@ circuits that cross jurisdictions can make legal coercion
 harder---this phenomenon is commonly called ``jurisdictional
 arbitrage.'' The Java Anon Proxy project recently experienced the
 need for this approach, when
-the German government successfully ordered them to add a backdoor to
+a German court forced them to add a backdoor to
 all of their nodes \cite{jap-backdoor}.
 
 \emph{Run a recipient.} An adversary running a webserver