>That's their angle: use the panopticon to get blackmail material on 100% of people, then anyone who is inconvenient or needs to be controlled can be dealt with painlessly.
Right, France is a totalitarian government, no proof necessary. You cannot fight nonsense with nonsense.
>the true goal of all the governments and agencies involved is not "preventing the next terror threat" but a power-play for the control of information.
This is a laughable statement but typically upvoted on HN. Politicians have to appear to have done everything possible to prevent these attacks. They are not dictators, if the public feels they were soft on terror they are gone, no pentaverate necessary.
People don't spray random other people with automatic weapons because of the marginal level of welfare benefits. The fact that you can even entertain that opinion is mind boggling.
What I've never understood is if these people believe so strongly in their God, and that he will punish them for apostasy, then why the hell do they have to kill them? It undermines their alleged faith.
More and more of the West are wanting to just pull out and "let them all kill each other", but that seems a little cruel doesn't it? Damned if you do damned if you don't.
You don't have to shut off SMS, but it is only encrypted with another iOS device, although I am hopeful they will release an Android client as difficult as that would be.