Originally posted by Dome
Well the government did blame everyhing on PGP(pretty good privacy) because suposadly the terrorist used that to encrypt all the e-mails and web data transmitted.
I think they haven't yet found any encrypted communications that were sent by the terrorists. I mean, it's really ironic and pretty arrogrant of the FBI/CIA/etc to go on this 'we want backdoors because we need them' spiel. To the best of my knowledge the only messages they've found regarding the attacks were NOT encrypted, and they STILL didn't stop it from happening. This is just something the secret services have wanted for a long time, and this is a convenient excuse for getting it. But it's still a... how to put it... foolish and selfish thing to do.

Just because bad guys might be in one or two houses, does that mean that you should wire ALL houses with secret explosives in the event of a mini-war?