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Re:UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services i... by DanBC on Sunday March 26, 2017 @09:21AM (#13960650)
An intelligence led response to terrorism is a result of learning from Northern Ireland. Internment caused harm; talking to the terrorists brought peace.

Don't forget that while they were talking to the IRA politicians were saying in public "we don't talk to terrorists".

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Re:UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services i... by AnthonyMouse on Sunday March 26, 2017 @10:08AM (#13960846)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signals_intelligence

vs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_intelligence_(intelligen...

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Re:UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services i... by pjc50 on Sunday March 26, 2017 @03:49PM (#13962794)
Ironically the early stages of such talks were held in a chip shop via a senior civil servant as a proxy, because it was vital to keep this "collusion" away from the awareness of security forces.

(There was a great documentary about this on TV, but I cannot remember the name of it)

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