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Re:How is NSA breaking so much crypto? by aianus on Thursday October 15, 2015 @12:02AM (#10391263)
> Theres real threats out there

Grow some balls. I'll take a 1% chance of dying to terrorists every year over an Orwellian government that passively intercepts everyone's communications.

Re:How is NSA breaking so much crypto? by dcposch on Thursday October 15, 2015 @01:30AM (#10391515)
Besides, your actual risk of dying in a terrorist attack is nowhere close to 1% / year.

It's actually 0% per lifetime, rounded to many decimal places.

Statists and authoritarians like to overstate external threats as an excuse to consolidate & expand state authority internally. It's an old and common tactic.

Re:How is NSA breaking so much crypto? by ci5er on Thursday October 15, 2015 @12:55AM (#10391427)
Well, sure. I'd take a 1% chance of you dying in a terrorist attack every year too. But it's not clear that a terrorist attack would necessarily be so limited in its scope/damage.