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So hypocrisy justifies spraying random Frenchmen with machine guns? Think harder.

>to get blackmail material on 100% of people

Nonsense.

>That's their angle: use the panopticon to get blackmail material on 100% of people, then anyone who is inconvenient or needs to be controlled can be dealt with painlessly.

Right, France is a totalitarian government, no proof necessary. You cannot fight nonsense with nonsense.

Careful what you wish for.

>the true goal of all the governments and agencies involved is not "preventing the next terror threat" but a power-play for the control of information.

This is a laughable statement but typically upvoted on HN. Politicians have to appear to have done everything possible to prevent these attacks. They are not dictators, if the public feels they were soft on terror they are gone, no pentaverate necessary.

"woe is us, it's all rotten, we can't do anything" is the motto of the current generation and self fulfilling.

People don't spray random other people with automatic weapons because of the marginal level of welfare benefits. The fact that you can even entertain that opinion is mind boggling.

What I've never understood is if these people believe so strongly in their God, and that he will punish them for apostasy, then why the hell do they have to kill them? It undermines their alleged faith.

More and more of the West are wanting to just pull out and "let them all kill each other", but that seems a little cruel doesn't it? Damned if you do damned if you don't.

I like this, is it your quote?

Once more into the quagmire? Fuck that.

You don't have to shut off SMS, but it is only encrypted with another iOS device, although I am hopeful they will release an Android client as difficult as that would be.

I assume that is exactly what they have in mind.

There is no friction to use it, Apple already has the credit card info. Paypal should be scared.

There are a lot of encrypted messaging apps but only iMessage is actually usable, plus Apple already has your billing info.

From the comments:

"Will be interesting to see whether customers will agree to pay a premium for a risk that they do not understand much less can quantify.

The elephant in the room is that all European companies engaged in international commerce are breaching European data protection laws in some way on any given day. The vagueness and subjectivity of many obligations under the legislation leave businesses in an almost impossible position. And most citizens have no idea what benefits the legislation bestows on them because it is so complicated and philosophical. The regime has been in place since 1995 and since that time the average Jo, Jean, Juan and Johannes have all had their 'privacy' massively eroded, however you define that term. The one benefit it was meant to have was harmonisation to make the single market work, but that hasn't really worked either. Frankly, it is a complete sham and failure.

Whilst the single market is powerful force for good, it is continually under attack from this sort of well-intentioned but barmy 'social' protection initiative. All it seems to benefit is the army of regulators at a national and European level who engage in endless navel gazing, looking out for the next hapless target to keep them gainfully employed."