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by slang800 3291 days ago
> The rapid proliferation of encrypted messaging by terrorist networks has prompted...

Giving governments the power to perform mass interception and decryption of communication doesn't seem like a sensible way to fight terrorists, even if they say it's only to be used on suspects. Terrorist attacks aren't increasing because the "bad guys" suddenly got their hands on a copy of OpenSSL.

In the case of the most recent attacks, these people were let into the country voluntarily.