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> The justification for the decryption requirement in the bill, as has become the norm, is the threat of criminals or terrorists using encrypted devices for nefarious deeds.

meanwhile terrorists just roll their own encryption software, making regular citizens less secure than them.

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/01/isis-now-has-ne...

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All the eavesdropping is completely dumb, even the less technical of all terrorists can just change a word for another and all your billion dollar security goes to the dump. Example: when they talked personally they agreed girl=bomb

Their texts will look like:

- my girl is not with me, I left her at discowild

- nothing happened mate, no idea why?

- relax fam, ask mike to present you another girl, he is partyng next to dominoes. We getting wasted today tho, no bs

And now is completely impossible to differentiate that conversation from all the other 10 billions texts that happen at any Saturday night.

Of course, statistics and metadata analysis still help to crack these.

Most recent reposts that I saw showed that metadata had not lead to stopping terrorism.

Ready for Rockabye baby, from Goldfinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrUm0KY8dJA

You don't realise they don't want to be able to actually decrypt the texts, what they want is to frame you (or whoever they want) as a suspect just because you use some encryption software.

Or, you know, use none at all. [0]

This is extremely obviously a power grab at controlling normal, law-abiding citizens. "Terrorists" are the new "paedophiles" - a sad excuse to remove the privacy and rights of ordinary citizens while being able to ask whether you support terrorism (or paedophiles) if you stand against it.

[0] https://theintercept.com/2015/11/18/signs-point-to-unencrypt...

I agree. It has the same no-win smell to it as the question, "when did you stop beating your wife? Just the date please."

If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.

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