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Before someone becomes a terrorist they are recruited and cultivated. It might be trivial for existing contacts to install Signal, it's not trivial for people t
by 3pt14159 7y ago
Before someone becomes a terrorist they are recruited and cultivated. It might be trivial for existing contacts to install Signal, it's not trivial for people to recruit when they put up extra barriers to communication. I don't know if this is going to matter in the long run, since one way or another the NSA is going to get in, but in the short run it will damage our ability to track how extremism is spreading.
- pc86 7y ago> since one way or another the NSA is going to get in This is not even remotely a foregone conclusion. > but in the short run it will damage our ability to track how extremism is spreading If the only way the intelligence community can "track how extremism is spreading" is by violating the privacy of everyone on the planet, then so be it. Liberty trumps security.
- GordonS 7y agoYou seem to have read the GP's comment very differently than me. I took it to mean that using encrypted apps could potentially reduce the spread of extremism, by simple virtue of the fact that it's a barrier to entry?
- pc86 7y agoYes I think we did. I reread it and I think the "it" that will damage our ability to track extremism is E2EE. Based on that interpretation I took that the GP was against E2EE for this reason and felt that allowing the government access to these communications was ok if it was for the right reasons. I could definitely be wrong, though!