| This headline is misleading by omission, to (nearly) the point of being false. Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_December_2020_incident tl;dr: - The primary reason for their arrest wasn't the Linux/encryption tools. - They were under investigation / suspicion after volunteering for a Kurdish militant group. Secondarily to the above, the prosecution used their encryption/etc, (in a case of bad logic) as further post-hoc evidence or cause for suspicion. In my opinion, omitting the primary causes here is intentionally muddying the issue, and making it sound like encryption itself was the cause. *Caveats:* - Yes, the prosecution clearly don't understand the technology, and obviously don't care to know. - Yes, they are implying that use of encryption itself is due to "needing to hide something". - Yes, they're implicating innocent (AKA "normal") use of encryption as something bad, and that's a problem. |
Thank you for doing the research and not just upvoting due to click bait.