[nine_k]

One way to fight terrorism is refusing to be terrorized.

The goal of terrorists is inflicting terror and reactions following from the terror. Terror suppresses reason, so the reactions become less reasonable and thus detrimental to the attacked side.

By this measure, terrorists have unquestionably won. The Western societies under attack suppress their core values after the attacks, such as openness, free speech, tolerance to a variety of views, and primacy of reason and right over force. Voluntarily crippling your own encryption is like voluntarily making holes in your armor, all out of fear.

It's like an auto-immune reaction that kills the patient instead of the germ.