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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by gist on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:30PM (#10582624)
Exactly. Same reason you have locks on your doors even though they are easy to defeat. Tech types want to believe that the government is always overreaching and everything is a slippery slope to some other loss of freedom. Mixed in with a bit of overcooked paranoia thinking the government has enough time and energy to track down everyone and whatever laws they are breaking by reading their emails.
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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by dsmithatx on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @06:08PM (#10584686)
Bad analogy. The sites I help run are often receiving 10k attacks per minute with fuzzers and known exploits. The internet provides anonymity unlike some guy standing at your front door. I have yet to have an army of bad guys trying to pick my lock 10k time per minute on my house. Backdoors into things are economy is based on SSL etc. are just plain irresponsible.
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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by c22 on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @02:02PM (#10583221)
If they actually did have enough time to enforce all broken laws by reading our emails then their unreasonable effectiveness may warrant the intrusion. If these capabilities only are able to thwart a small percent of lawless plots then perhaps the cost to our personal privacy and security is too high to justify.
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