&gt; So politicians and intelligence services calling for encryption want, institutionally, to keep people safe. How can tech companies do that without breaking or backdooring encryption? That&#x27;s the real problem to solve, and the first person to figure out how to do that will be way ahead.<p>Its not a tech problem or a solvable problem in the way you imply. It sounds reasonable but it is like solving lightning strikes. You can&#x27;t actually &quot;solve&quot; lightning.<p>You can reduce the causalities through reasonable precautions but people are still going to die.<p>Its frankly irrational to talk about this problem as an actual problem. Terrorism is less dangerous to me than <i>preventable medical errors</i> for fuck&#x27;s sake.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;how-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-us-hospitals" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;how-many-die-from-medical-...</a><p>&gt; In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published the famous “To Err Is Human” report, which dropped a bombshell on the medical community by reporting that up to 98,000 people a year die because of mistakes in hospitals. The number was initially disputed, but is now widely accepted by doctors and hospital officials — and quoted ubiquitously in the media.<p>&gt; In 2010, the Office of Inspector General for Health and Human Services said that bad hospital care contributed to the deaths of 180,000 patients in Medicare alone in a given year.<p>&gt; Now comes a study in the current issue of the Journal of Patient Safety that says the numbers may be much higher — between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death, the study says.<p>Shaving 1% off 98,000 deaths a year will save more people than preventing the Paris attack.<p>How the fuck is it rational to be focusing on anything other than major causes of preventable deaths?<p>Sorry, honestly, at this point I&#x27;m just disgusted with anyone who suggests terrorism is a threat worth throwing billions of dollars and lives away on while they casually ignore far more dangerous sources of human deaths.<p>Get back to me when funding preventable harm in medical care is worth hundreds of billions of government funding.