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Re:The Met commissioner: Tech giants make it impossible to s... by enteeentee on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:02PM (#28504902)
Not sure if by Neo-nazi you mean right wing terrorist attacks, but a growing number have been foiled.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58512901

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Re:The Met commissioner: Tech giants make it impossible to s... by WarOnPrivacy on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:19PM (#28505077)
>a growing number have been foiled

The lesson here being that plots are foiled without breaking encryption for everyone.

I'd sooner trust an honest police chief who just admitted "Look. What we really want is to be able to snoop thru your personal data anytime we like, preferably w/o any oversight."

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Re:The Met commissioner: Tech giants make it impossible to s... by dan-robertson on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:07PM (#28504942)
Right, Neo-nazi was too specific a word to use. I was generally referring to far-right (or often the mix of far-right and some psychological condition) attacks. A recentish example is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Finsbury_Park_attack
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