[Cryptography] FBI Gripes About Crypto on Facebook/WhatsApp/Everywhere, People Rebuffing and Accepting "Costs"?

[Ray Dillinger]

On 05/22/2016 10:03 AM, grarpamp wrote:
> https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/04/06/1929201/top-fbi-attorney-worried-about-whatsapp-encryption
> WhatsApp on Tuesday announced that all types of messages on the latest
> version of its app are now automatically protected by end-to-end
> encryption, and the FBI's top attorney is worried some of the
> platform's more than 1 billion global users will take advantage of the
> move to hide their crime- or terrorism-related communications. 

Um.  One billion people is 14% of the world.  Meaning, one
person out of every seven.

Assuming for the moment that there are more than seven
criminals or terrorists, it seems likely that someone will
in fact use it to hide crime or terrorism-related activities;
otherwise criminals and terrorists would be underrepresented
in the sample.

On the other hand, there are vastly more people who will use
it to secure information that criminals would otherwise steal
and keep secure information that terrorists would otherwise
use to plan attacks.  Because there are vastly more people
engaged in those activities than there are criminals and
terrorists.

				Bear

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