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by enteeentee 1733 days ago
Not sure if by Neo-nazi you mean right wing terrorist attacks, but a growing number have been foiled.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58512901

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>a growing number have been foiled

The lesson here being that plots are foiled without breaking encryption for everyone.

I'd sooner trust an honest police chief who just admitted "Look. What we really want is to be able to snoop thru your personal data anytime we like, preferably w/o any oversight."

Right, Neo-nazi was too specific a word to use. I was generally referring to far-right (or often the mix of far-right and some psychological condition) attacks. A recentish example is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Finsbury_Park_attack