The security authorities always use terrorist attacks as an excuse to get more powers. It is a golden opportunity to get powers that they would never otherwise get.

Rod

On 25 May 2017 at 18:46, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
Not too surprising to discover that some parties in the UK might
be using the Manchester attack as a pretext to push through laws to ban
secure encryption
<https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/25/uk_to_push_antiencryption_laws_after_election/>.

As if such a ban would have helped uncover a perpetrator who, by all
accounts, had already been reported to the authorities multiple times...
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