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I don't think he's talking about the guy who mugs him. More like about the guy who mows down a crowd with an automatic weapon, the guy who drives a truck throu

• matthewdgreen 6y ago
  The guy who does that stuff is going to keep using encryption. Or maybe he won’t bother and he’ll keep using SMS or some other channel that intelligence agencies are too busy to monitor. Mass communications surveillance against operations like this is a fool’s errand.
  • eznzt 6y ago
    >The guy who does that stuff is going to keep using encryption. Then we can charge him regardless of the contents of his messages.
• euthrow439 6y ago
  Well, no, you're wrong. The terrorists are horrible, of course, but they don't really cause that much of a risk to the everyday person. In my country there's a rapidly growing organized crime scene built around the distribution of narcotics. They are organizing themselves via these apps using burner phones. They are exploding bombs in multi-home buildings to scare/take out the competition on a weekly basis. And its all accellerating at a very scary rate. School-age kids are using what sales people love to refer to as "military grade encryption" to communicate about hits/murders.
  • dalu 6y ago
    Really, what country would that be? I call BS. And when ever I read "military grade encryption" I'm thinking buzzwords. Don't make yourself sound more important than you actually are.
• chance_state 6y ago
  So stop letting "that kind of people" into your country rather than take away everyone else's rights.
  • euthrow439 6y ago
    Well, half of the EU has already backed itself into a corner.