Re:Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens
by Blaiz0r on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @07:34AM
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For both recent attacks the authorities already had information on them, they were already on watch lists.
Re:Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens
by freeflight on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @10:09AM
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That's pretty much always been the case with most of these attacks. Which is the very same reason why I think that "more surveillance/data collection" will make the problem only worse.
As is, many government agencies databases seem to be filled to the brim with false-positives, making it impossible to spot the actual dangerous people among the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of "suspects".
Maybe they believe that more data will make it easier to figure out who the really dangerous people are? But that whole idea is still based on concepts which pretty much boil down to precognition of how individual humans gonna act, an impossibility.
Guess a few people took Minority Report a tad bit too seriously and didn't get the message at all.
Re:Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens
by CaptSpify on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @11:01AM
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If you are having trouble finding a needle in a haystack, adding more hay is a bad idea.
Re:Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens
by freeflight on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:53PM
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That's a good one, reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdIA0jeW-24
But what about dumb criminals? From what I read both the London Bridge attackers and Manchester bomber are dumb as dogs__t. They'd probably use whatsapp even if it wasn't private simply because it's popular.
(I support private communication, and think not being able to catch some criminals is a reasonable price, but many others do not)