Some tech firms being 'friendly to terrorists' says UK police chief

Re:Some tech firms being 'friendly to terrorists' says UK po... by Silhouette on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @10:07AM (#9420486)

This is a typical biased perspective from someone whose job is to deal with the worst of humanity every day. It seems more realistic to assume that the threat from terrorism is very small, and there are other threats that are much greater. Those include threats that good security and privacy technology help to mitigate. They also include threats from which strong civil liberties protect us.

So no, preventing technology from being exploited by bad people should not be "front and centre" of its creators' thinking. That attitude just leads to never building useful things. Should we also stop building good quality roads, because being able to drive faster is friendly to bank robbers? Should we abolish cash, because being able to transact quickly and anonymously is friendly to fraudsters?

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Re:Some tech firms being 'friendly to terrorists' says UK po... by marcosdumay on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:33PM (#9422514)

> This is a typical biased perspective from someone whose job is to deal with the worst of humanity every day.

And this is giving too much credence for people that were already caught abusing their powers.

No, evidence is that those people are not biased. They have a clear view of their goals, and they are trying to keep the population terrorized enabling them to gather more of government's power. They are terrorists themselves, using terror to enable a coup.

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