Paris Attacks Blamed on Strong Cryptography and Edward Snowden

[Mirimir]

On 11/17/2015 10:21 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 05:03:48PM +0200,  Александр  wrote:
>> 1. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/paris_attacks_b.html
>> 2.
>> https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/
>>
>> <<As Paris reels from terrorist attacks that have claimed at least 128
>> lives, fierce blame for the carnage is being directed toward American
>> whistleblower Edward Snowden and the spread of strong encryption catalyzed
>> by his actions. Now the Paris attacks are being used an excuse to demand
>> back doors>>
>>
>>
> 
> According to local media.
> 
> French sheeple gathered to protest, claiming
> "we are not afraid of terrorists".
> 
> At the protest, recreational firework went off.
> 
> Significant amount of the protesters started
> running away in panic, afraid of bombs.

Now _that_ is funny :)

> Judge for yourself about the rationality of
> sheeple.

Well, fear is rational in context. Perhaps French have forgotten what
WWII was like for them. As far as I know, they're not in range of
Pakistani nukes. But maybe Ukraine kept some that could reach them.