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I am baffled as to why you think a criminal or terrorist would follow the rules set forth by the US Congress and not use unbreakable encryption in their communi
by mhuffman 12y ago
I am baffled as to why you think a criminal or terrorist would follow the rules set forth by the US Congress and not use unbreakable encryption in their communications. The only people that would be successfully watched would be law-abiding engineers of products and law-abiding users of those products.
- rokhayakebe 12y agoCertainly having the ability to read all messages is not built with the intention that we will find a message from the chief of ISIS emailing his top generals. As a strategist, to disintegrate/infiltrate any terrorist cell, you will not begin from the top and work your way down. Every organization is more fragile at the bottom, hence you can expect someone will make the mistake of using the system and leaking information, allowing national security officials to work their way up from there.
- mhuffman 12y agoSo your theory is that we should all be spied on in the off chance some of the low-hanging fruit in a hypothetical criminal organization simply makes a mistake or goofs up enough to put it in the officials lap. Working off that theory, why not just not spy on millions of innocent civilians and let the criminal bunglers bungle anyway?