to the people who complain, we didn't hear you when the US kept (is still is) massively tracking you
and let's not talk about all free apps on your favorite smartphone, they track you to death
but who cares, nobody should track me for everyone safety! only for everyone's lack of privacy!
Note that in a very large number of terrorist attacks the knowledge was already available, but it either wasn't acted on, communicated improperly, not given enough urgency or lost because too much time was spent looking at spurious signals. Every time the amount of information available goes up that last factor will grow. Signal vs noise is the main contributor in why 9/11 happened, and the same goes for a lot of other terror attacks as well. But that sort of admission requires a complete review of how this is all practiced, would require an end to the security theater and would cut a whole lot of pork. I'm somewhat skeptical that this will happen.
But more security theater moves to appease Joe Public and look tough, of course.
9/11 happened because they let it happen
Jets would come at you if you flew over cities without permissions
Why do we encrypt things in the first place? because lack of trust
Maybe let's fix that instead of expecting society should lack "trust" between actors
Respectfully, you're nuts.
I am saying they weren't prepared for the fact that such event could happen
And this is the same as expecting states to not apply surveillance despite encryptions
If we are not prepared, then it can happen
And if we don't want to be prepared by choice, then we let that kind of event happen
The problem was that even if the information was available to them they didn't act on it timely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_intelligence_befo...
You weren't listening then.