<story><title>Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2015/11/18/signs-point-to-unencrypted-communications-between-terror-suspects/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rtl49</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t mean to downplay the importance of this tragedy for the people involved, but it&amp;#x27;s interesting to observe the media reaction to this event with a more detached frame of mind than I was capable of as a child.&lt;p&gt;The attacks have played right into the hands of parties with political interests lying in wait. For months articles on one or the other side of the encryption &amp;quot;debate&amp;quot; have been produced by news organizations at a low hum. Now that something, anything, loosely relevant has occurred, they can now point to this as further evidence in support of whatever position was espoused over the course of the preceding months. It strikes a person who pays attention to such things as rather methodical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>Just try to find a public figure, &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; public figure, on any side, who has changed their mind on any policy question as a result of recent events or the information that has come to light from them.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s obvious if you pay any attention that approximately nobody is examining facts and then reaching conclusions. They all reached their conclusions long ago, and now they use facts to justify those conclusions when suitable.</text></comment>
<story><title>Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2015/11/18/signs-point-to-unencrypted-communications-between-terror-suspects/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rtl49</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t mean to downplay the importance of this tragedy for the people involved, but it&amp;#x27;s interesting to observe the media reaction to this event with a more detached frame of mind than I was capable of as a child.&lt;p&gt;The attacks have played right into the hands of parties with political interests lying in wait. For months articles on one or the other side of the encryption &amp;quot;debate&amp;quot; have been produced by news organizations at a low hum. Now that something, anything, loosely relevant has occurred, they can now point to this as further evidence in support of whatever position was espoused over the course of the preceding months. It strikes a person who pays attention to such things as rather methodical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sliverstorm</author><text>Basically, everyone has already made up their minds whether encryption&amp;#x2F;guns&amp;#x2F;drugs&amp;#x2F;etc are good or bad, and use global events as &amp;quot;proof&amp;quot; of why they are right. It&amp;#x27;s not just the news anchors that do it.&lt;p&gt;When was the last time you read someone say, &amp;quot;And this latest attack has changed my mind...&amp;quot;. Almost never. Mostly it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;And this latest attack proves my agenda is right...&amp;quot;</text></comment>