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A comment on EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf] by jfk13 on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:06AM (#25033201)
> Statistics telling you there’s a bigger chance someone else will get hurt be damned

Nobody believes the statistics are relevant to them. Statistics are about all those dumb other people; but I'm always the smart, responsible exception.

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Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf] by NoImmatureAdHom on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:29AM (#25035139)
As I mentioned elsewhere, I think those urban-legend statistics are probably wrong in aggregate. That said, people do have knowledge about their specific situation that they bring to bear in a valid way. Crazy, violent ex? Yeah, your ratio of chances of using a gun in a way that makes sense to chances of accidentally hurting someone is way better than average.
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