Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror Attack

Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by Asbostos on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @05:14PM (#10584381)

It would help conventional law enforcement. Most violent criminals probably don't put enough forethought into their spontaneous attacks to properly avoid notice by the NSA. Unfortunately the NSA doesn't seem to use their resources to secure the nation, and just ignores all the large scale violent crime that goes on daily.

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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @06:48PM (#10584871)

> Unfortunately the NSA doesn't seem to use their resources to secure the nation, and just ignores all the large scale violent crime that goes on daily.

The NSA is part of the Department of Defense charged with foreign signals intelligence for national security purposes, its not a law enforcement agency. (And many of the tools it uses would be flagrantly unconstitutional if used for domestic law enforcement.)

Generally, blurring of the military and law enforcement roles is not a healthy thing; it may be good for order, but rarely for liberty.

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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by maxerickson on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @06:31PM (#10584803)

It's largely outside of the NSA mandate to monitor the communications of US citizen criminals. It is not the fault of the NSA that Congress has not passed a law telling them to spy on domestic criminals.

I get that some of the controversy lately is about how well they stick to their mandate, but that doesn't change what the mandate is.

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