Encryption under fire in Europe as France and Germany call for decrypt law
&gt; The context here is that France and Germany have suffered a spate of terrorist attacks over the past year, including a co-ordinated attack in Paris in November 2015 that killed 130; a July 2016 attack in Nice where a truck driver ploughed into crowds celebrating Bastille Day; and a stabbing in a church in Northern France that killed an elderly priest.<p>To put this in perspective, about 700 people would die from homicide in France in a normal year, and about 600,000 would die of all causes (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indexmundi.com&#x2F;g&#x2F;g.aspx?c=fr&amp;v=26" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indexmundi.com&#x2F;g&#x2F;g.aspx?c=fr&amp;v=26</a>). The unusually high amount of terrorism in the last year, accounts for 0.03% of all deaths.<p>That terrorism is seen as an urgent problem just highlights the irrationality of decision-making in a democracy. It poses no significant mortality risk to Europeans.