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>The next time terrorists use encryption to hide their communications, Has there been a first time? From my understanding to date there has not been any proven
by the_ancient 11y ago
>The next time terrorists use encryption to hide their communications,
Has there been a first time? From my understanding to date there has not been any proven evidence that has been "hidden" away by encryption by terrorists.
In this case they have most of the info, obtained from apple under court order via the iCloud storage which Apple has full access to and can provide to Law Enforcement
In Paris the Terrorists used normal non-encrypted SMS
This entire FUD about "going dark" seems to be completely in the minds of the FBI and Prosecutors likely brought about by watching too many Bad Movies and TV Shows
- 746F7475 11y ago>From my understanding to date there has not been any proven evidence that has been "hidden" away by encryption by terrorists. To be fair it's hard to know if there has been since we can't take a peek into the encryption
- the_ancient 11y agoTrue, but until such time they have proven it is an issue and that there are not other investigative avenues to be used to capture and prosecute terrorists then they should keep their hands off my encryption That is how free societies work, we do not give up freedom simply because there might at some point in the future be a problem...
- 746F7475 11y agoI'm not suggesting that they should break encryption, but I'd like to point out again that it's pretty hard to prove that breaking encryption is necessary in "the fight against terrorism" until they can break the encryption and show us the content. If they get to the content in other ways we are just going to say: "aha, see you don't need to break encryption after all"