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Yeah "we need to break all encryption to catch people planning terrorism in Facebook groups, e-mail, and unencrypted SMS..." Most terrorists are idiots because
by api 6y ago
Yeah "we need to break all encryption to catch people planning terrorism in Facebook groups, e-mail, and unencrypted SMS..."
Most terrorists are idiots because most people who are not idiots are not terrorists.
- wolco5 6y agoMost people who are idiots are not terrorists either. On average a terrorist would be smarter than the average person. Terrorists are highly motiviated individuals, they can deeply understand an ideology and they activity learn/train in specialized skills. Compared to the average person their IQ would be 20 points higher. Being a terrorist isn't easy. It's not a job for everyone.
- shmageggy 6y ago> they can deeply understand an ideology Looking at what motivated most of the Capitol insurrectionists does not support this claim. They are seemingly unable to distinguish reality from obvious propaganda or wild conspiracy theories.
- wolco5 6y agoThey are not terrorists mostly naive fools.
- dragonwriter 6y agoTerrorists and naive fools are not disjoint sets.
- wolco5 6y agoA terrorist has a working plan. A naive fool not so much. That's the difference.
- Taurenking 6y ago>people protesting >terrorists Pick one
- baud147258 6y ago> On average a terrorist would be smarter than the average person Because the stupid ones get killed/thrown into jail
- simonh 6y agoThere have been plenty of extremely well organised, sophisticated and technically competent terrorists. The IRA, the Red Amy Faction, the PLO and Black September, Al Qaeda. Aside from 9/11 none of them have operated successfully in the US and your domestic terrorism has mainly been perpetrated by individuals or very small one off groups of just 2 or 3.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoIt's worth noting the Weather Underground were well organized and sophisticated terrorists, although they were admittedly a lot less violent and long-lasting than the listed groups.
- pnw_hazor 6y agoThey are still active, just not violent.
- simonh 6y agoInteresting, I'd never heard of them. They certainly do seem to be pretty sophisticated and disciplined though.
- philwelch 6y agoThere was actually a fair amount of domestic terrorism in the 60’s and 70’s that doesn’t get widely discussed for some reason. FALN was another fairly successful domestic terror group that has gone largely forgotten.
- KineticLensman 6y ago> Aside from 9/11 none of them have operated successfully in the US The Provisional IRA ran fundraising operations in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAID
- dragonwriter 6y ago