Re:A Back Door to Encryption Won't Stop Terrorists
by dplgk on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @06:58PM
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The terrorists will use encrypted, unbreakable methods no matter that Google or Apple use is their OS. That's really the only point that matters.
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Re:A Back Door to Encryption Won't Stop Terrorists
by slg on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @07:46PM
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And I might be able to get my hands on an AK47 if I really wanted and had enough money to dedicate to it. That is the truth of the world. But do you believe that making it harder to acquire a weapon like that doesn't have some benefit?
Back to HN's world, one of the basic principles of human factors is "make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard." You might not be able to prevent people from doing the wrong thing, but there is still value in making it harder to do.