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Re:Encrypted Messaging Apps Face New Scrutiny Over Possible ... by terryf on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @01:42AM (#10579527)
It has almost never been a safer time to live in Europe than it is now. Look at crime rates, they are dropping everywhere. Homicide is down, robberies are down. Terrorist attacks happen so rarely that they almost don't count. The number of people killed in traffic accidents in the USA on the same day of the Paris attacks is almost the same as the number of people killed by terrorists. I'm sorry to be so cold, but they didn't even manage to make a dent in the stats graph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_European_Unio...

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Re:Encrypted Messaging Apps Face New Scrutiny Over Possible ... by tomjen3 on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:08AM (#10579792)
And if I was Spock I might care about that kind of argument. As it happens, people care far more about the feeling of safety than safety and believe me that feeling tanked after Paris.
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Re:Encrypted Messaging Apps Face New Scrutiny Over Possible ... by andreyf on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:24AM (#10579828)
There are other ways of addressing feelings of safety that don't involve giving up liberties.
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