> So politicians and intelligence services calling for encryption want, institutionally, to keep people safe. How can tech companies do that without breaking or

> So politicians and intelligence services calling for encryption want, institutionally, to keep people safe. How can tech companies do that without breaking or backdooring encryption? That's the real problem to solve, and the first person to figure out how to do that will be way ahead. Its not a tech problem or a solvable problem in the way you imply. It sounds reasonable but it is like solving lightning strikes. You can't actually "solve" lightning. You can reduce the causalities through reasonable precautions but people are still going to die. Its frankly irrational to talk about this problem as an actual problem. Terrorism is less dangerous to me than preventable medical errors for fuck's sake. http://www.propublica.org/article/how-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-us-hospitals http://www.propublica.org/article/how-many-die-from-medical-... > In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published the famous “To Err Is Human” report, which dropped a bombshell on the medical community by reporting that up to 98,000 people a year die because of mistakes in hospitals. The number was initially disputed, but is now widely accepted by doctors and hospital officials — and quoted ubiquitously in the media. > In 2010, the Office of Inspector General for Health and Human Services said that bad hospital care contributed to the deaths of 180,000 patients in Medicare alone in a given year. > Now comes a study in the current issue of the Journal of Patient Safety that says the numbers may be much higher — between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death, the study says. Shaving 1% off 98,000 deaths a year will save more people than preventing the Paris attack. How the fuck is it rational to be focusing on anything other than major causes of preventable deaths? Sorry, honestly, at this point I'm just disgusted with anyone who suggests terrorism is a threat worth throwing billions of dollars and lives away on while they casually ignore far more dangerous sources of human deaths. Get back to me when funding preventable harm in medical care is worth hundreds of billions of government funding.