<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>No because they&amp;#x27;re not using it in the first place. It&amp;#x27;s a totally unrelated issue, dear to some for reasons entirely their own. The fear of terrorism is just a convenient little button to press to get their cookie.</text><parent_chain><item><author>colund</author><text>If (almost) everyone who is not a terrorist were to give up encryption, then it would be much easier to track down&amp;#x2F;narrow down the terrorists if they keep using it, no?</text></item><item><author>ewzimm</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s even more absurd than that. The premise is that we can have a public worldwide debate that emphasizes how important encryption is to successfully carrying out terrorist attacks, convince the world to give up their privacy for the sake of safety, and after the majority of the protestors have been defeated by public awareness that encryption and terrorism go hand-in-hand, the terrorists will go back to using phone calls and unencrypted email.</text></item><item><author>rbcgerard</author><text>&amp;quot;One key premise here seems to be that prior to the Snowden reporting, The Terrorists helpfully and stupidly used telephones and unencrypted emails to plot, so Western governments were able to track their plotting and disrupt at least large-scale attacks. That would come as a massive surprise to the victims of the attacks of 2002 in Bali, 2004 in Madrid, 2005 in London, 2008 in Mumbai, and April 2013 at the Boston Marathon.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theintercept.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theintercept.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;exploiting-emotions-abou...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror Attack</title><url>http://www.insidesources.com/new-york-times-article-blaming-encryption-paris-attacks/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munificent</author><text>Maybe, but I&amp;#x27;d rather not send my financial information over the Internet in cleartext every time I buy something from a web site.</text><parent_chain><item><author>colund</author><text>If (almost) everyone who is not a terrorist were to give up encryption, then it would be much easier to track down&amp;#x2F;narrow down the terrorists if they keep using it, no?</text></item><item><author>ewzimm</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s even more absurd than that. The premise is that we can have a public worldwide debate that emphasizes how important encryption is to successfully carrying out terrorist attacks, convince the world to give up their privacy for the sake of safety, and after the majority of the protestors have been defeated by public awareness that encryption and terrorism go hand-in-hand, the terrorists will go back to using phone calls and unencrypted email.</text></item><item><author>rbcgerard</author><text>&amp;quot;One key premise here seems to be that prior to the Snowden reporting, The Terrorists helpfully and stupidly used telephones and unencrypted emails to plot, so Western governments were able to track their plotting and disrupt at least large-scale attacks. That would come as a massive surprise to the victims of the attacks of 2002 in Bali, 2004 in Madrid, 2005 in London, 2008 in Mumbai, and April 2013 at the Boston Marathon.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theintercept.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theintercept.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;exploiting-emotions-abou...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror Attack</title><url>http://www.insidesources.com/new-york-times-article-blaming-encryption-paris-attacks/</url></story>