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Poll Says Most Americans Favor Crypto Backdoors

Sideways The Dog writes: "According to this MSNBC article, "72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption laws would be 'somewhat' or 'very' helpful in preventing a repeat of last week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C." I realize that I'm preaching to the choir here, but it is scary how many people do not realize that the bad guys are not going to play fair here. Even granted that people may not realize the tools are already out there for the bad guys to use, I wonder what the polls will say when the backdoor gets compromised and 72% of people get their bank accounts wiped." Update: 09/19 19:26 PM GMT by T : Declan McCullagh adds a link to "the actual text of the question asked by the pollsters, which Princeton Survey Research Associates describes here." Note the numbers on this page as well.

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  1. Hmmm... by Sir_Real · · Score: 1, Troll

    Go ahead and mod this down (I would...) But doesn't this color scheme look like what a baby would shit after eating a gallon of musturd?

    Andrew

  2. Yeah, it's normal. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just Taco fucking us AC's in the ass, as usual.

  3. FUCK YOU Read other people's messages before posti by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    FUCK YOU. IT IS SPELLED "AMERICANS"; LEARN TO FUCKING READ AND FUCKING WRITE, FUCKTARD. THIRD GRADE EDUCATION, INDEED!!


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  4. Re:Other Poll. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why the FUCK is this flamebait.

    Moderators suck ass!

    What the hell, is JonKatz getting mod points now?

    BULLSHIT!

  5. Re:Too Many Secrets by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please learn to spell, you fucking slag. Thank you.

    --Dick Myainus

  6. Re:87% of Americans are in favour by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Too funny! I wonder, since I like to post links
    to goatse.cx if that makes me a terrorist? If it does,
    guess I'll start wearing a badge proudly. :)