Reply to post: Re: " ONLY clue you've got is a hint of a hunch and no way to back it up enough "

The encryption conundrum: Should tech compromise or double down?

Charles 9

Re: " ONLY clue you've got is a hint of a hunch and no way to back it up enough "

"There are always reasons and always a trail. It's time people stopped listening to this sort of hysterical BS and remembered the words of Mary Shafer. "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.""

But if no one knows the trail exists, how can they follow it? Take "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski. No one even heard of him until a relative clued the feds in based on his egomaniacal crypto puzzle. What about Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Were they on any serious terrorist investigation map before Oklahoma City? And then there's the Bath School Massacre: still the worst school massacre in US history. Spontaneous action by a farmer (thus legal access to TNT as excavation charges), and no one could've anticipated his actions because he acted too suddenly: almost immediately after losing a local election.

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