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China have seen the UK and US's plans, and are following suit. It allows dictatorships like those seen in Saudi Arabia (where whipping is the punishment for criticising the government), Turkey (where prison is the punishment for criticising the government) and China (where jail and hard labour is punishment for criticising the government) to follow suit.

China have seen the UK and US's plans, and are following suit. It allows dictatorships like those seen in Saudi Arabia (where whipping is the punishment for criticising the government), Turkey (where prison is the punishment for criticising the government) and China (where jail and hard labour is punishment for criticising the government).

China have seen the UK and US's plans, and are following suit. It allows dictatorships like those seen in Saudi Arabia (where whipping is the punishment for criticising the government), Turkey (where prison is the punishment for criticising the government) and China (where jail and hard labour is punishment for criticising the government) to follow suit.

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Most people handwave and say 'terrorists' to make it acceptable, but the majority of scams come from social engineering attacks where the person pretends to be an authorised individual. They just cited your recent visit to the hospital and your personpersonal social number, they must be the real deal! What, you need 500 smackaroonies paid up front now for my new surgery? Right away stranger caller.

Most people handwave and say 'terrorists' to make it acceptable, but the majority of scams come from social engineering attacks where the person pretends to be an authorised individual. They just cited your recent visit to the hospital and your person social number, they must be the real deal! What, you need 500 smackaroonies paid up front now for my new surgery? Right away stranger caller.

Most people handwave and say 'terrorists' to make it acceptable, but the majority of scams come from social engineering attacks where the person pretends to be an authorised individual. They just cited your recent visit to the hospital and your personal social number, they must be the real deal! What, you need 500 smackaroonies paid up front now for my new surgery? Right away stranger caller.

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My response here is likely many in a sea of answers, but here's the breakdown of why encryption is good, why it's vital, and why breaking it is pointless.

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Congress investigation found not a single terrorist plot was stopped by the NSA. So it's all taxpayer's cost for no profit

See here.

FBI Coleen Rowley at the London's whistleblowers conference remarked that the people who truly stop terrorist attacks are most often civilians, citing how two men on a hotdog stand apprehended terrorist suspects.

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No encryption means items cannot be identified as authentic, allowing criminals to commit financial fraud - in their name

The recent losses of information from places such as Target, TalkTalk and others was due to a lack of security. Encrypted personal data means fraudsters can't use it.

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No encryption on emails allows criminals and fraudsters to snoop on your personal details

Most people handwave and say 'terrorists' to make it acceptable, but the majority of scams come from social engineering attacks where the person pretends to be an authorised individual. They just cited your recent visit to the hospital and your person social number, they must be the real deal! What, you need 500 smackaroonies paid up front now for my new surgery? Right away stranger caller.

They also prey on the vulnerable (elderly) and the ignorant.

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No encryption means no security on security systems, for example... access passes at a nuclear plant

Your friends would have to be morons to advocate the weakening of security to err... protect security (?!) in this context. Biometric systems, card readers etc all rely on encryption to ensure outsiders don't simply hack in. Or they should do.

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Your money and identity stolen means more crime

Some might be super naive, 'so what if they break in, my bank account only has X amount of cash!'. Whatever cash they steal becomes black money used in other criminal operations. Your stolen 50 becomes another pack of bullets for a crazed executor. Your 100 becomes the bribe to a guard in a human trafficking ring allowing women and children to be smuggled.

Your stolen identities becomes forged documents legitimising illegal immigrants, whether they be prostitutes or men seeking to commit further crimes.

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Weakening encryption strengthens authoritarians

China have seen the UK and US's plans, and are following suit. It allows dictatorships like those seen in Saudi Arabia (where whipping is the punishment for criticising the government), Turkey (where prison is the punishment for criticising the government) and China (where jail and hard labour is punishment for criticising the government).

By seeing backdoors are possible, they too will request such features. By advocating the removal of encryption, you are advocating the punishment of people speaking out for human rights abuses.

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Encryption is all or nothing

You can't have half measures. Any installed weaknesses hackers will find. So encryption either has to be completely secure, or not at all.

On the balance of probabilities, given no single encryption breakthrough has ever been proven to prevent or catch a terrorist, and there are so many crimes facilitated by poor, subpar security (identify thefts, bank fraud, etc), it weighs in favour of encryption, given the more encryption security, the fewer crimes.

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What about XYZ using encryption?

ISIS have been declared technologically incompetent, and not surprising, you'd have to be pretty stupid to move to a county in a worse condition than your own in order to murder people for 'freedom'. And there are much bigger technological exploits in the wild that make car bombs look petty and trite - information security is far more important.

In terms of pedophiles, it is possible to setup sting operations (IE where they physically meet and get arrested). Encryption only hides online activities, but most laws are only broken when a physical action takes place. Deep cover agents and long-term infiltration operations can be done here.

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So shortstop: ask them to name a SINGLE EXAMPLE of when breaking encryption STOPPED A TERRORIST ATTACK (note: the San Bernardio shootings weren't stopped by breaking encryption). If they can't name one, ask them to name how many cases of LOST or STOLEN INFORMATION there have been (make sure you have a long list to cite).

The contrast will be stark, and no-one with an ounce of common sense would suggest the removal of encryption ever again.