The bodies outside Parliament are barely cold...
And their deaths are already being used to justify going after end-to-end encryption. Never mind that dictatorships around the world will use that to ID thought criminals and send them off for re-education/forced labor/a date with a firing squad. Never mind that working encryption is what allows you to talk about your personal and government business with dramatically higher safety. Never mind that working, not-backdoored encryption is embedded in many payment card industry and financial industry regulations.
Let's just trash all that so we can find out if some guy with a history of violence might try as a matter of convenience to attach himself to jihadism, and kill 3 innocent people in the process. And that's assuming that Mr. Masood was not texting about kitten videos or soccer scores before he went off the deep end.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
