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> Signal vs noise is the main contributor in why 9/11 happened

9/11 happened because they let it happen

Jets would come at you if you flew over cities without permissions

Why do we encrypt things in the first place? because lack of trust

Maybe let's fix that instead of expecting society should lack "trust" between actors



> 9/11 happened because they let it happen

Respectfully, you're nuts.


By "let it happen" i don't mean it was intentional!! don't get me wrong!

I am saying they weren't prepared for the fact that such event could happen

And this is the same as expecting states to not apply surveillance despite encryptions

If we are not prepared, then it can happen

And if we don't want to be prepared by choice, then we let that kind of event happen


There had already been books and movies with that theme, you can take it to the bank that hi-jacked airliners as an improvised WMD were on the radar at the relevant institutions.

The problem was that even if the information was available to them they didn't act on it timely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_intelligence_befo...




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