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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by ForHackernews on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:12PM (#10582477)
> It's even more absurd than that... after the majority of the protestors have been defeated by public awareness that encryption and terrorism go hand-in-hand, the terrorists will go back to using phone calls and unencrypted email.

I think you're straw-manning their position here.

The opponents of encryption aren't claiming terrorists will start using unencrypted communication, they're advocating for legally-mandated "back doors" to be built into supposedly-secure communication systems.

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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by marcosdumay on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:39PM (#10582670)
It's not a straw-men. It's not of the problems with the rationale.

Terrorisms won't use legally-mandated software for they illegal operations.

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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by ewzimm on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @01:33PM (#10583028)
You're right, but I didn't mean only phone calls and unencrypted email. I considered adding "or their equivalent back-doored technologies," but I hoped it would be clear. Using a compromised technology is the equivalent of unencrypted email and phone calls to whoever has the key. All it does is draw attention to how important it is to communicate in secret. This will be the Streisand effect of crypto.
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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by ForHackernews on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @08:46PM (#10592216)
How would they know, though? For all we know, OpenSSL has been backdoored in some subtle way.
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