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There's no evidence the plotters of the Paris terrorist attacks used encrypted communications First sentence is already wrong. They recovered smartphones that
by ck2 11y ago
There's no evidence the plotters of the Paris terrorist attacks used encrypted communications
First sentence is already wrong.
They recovered smartphones that had encrypted messaging apps.
Still no excuse for government backdoors which will be stolen by all kinds of entities within months of their creation and allow the wrong people to spy on law enforcement itself.
Government had a 10 year headstart before all this, where are all the terrorists they stopped before this?
- swiley 11y agoMy phone has at least two encrypted messaging apps on it that I've been meaning to learn how to use. Everyone I know uses Kik though and has 0 desire to switch. So we really don't know that they where actually using them if that's all they really found.
- ck2 11y agoWell unless they factory reset the phones, which they obviously did not, android keeps usage stats on app so it would be obvious if the apps were used or not. But you are right, it could just be someone overstating something where apps have the ability to be encrypted, not that they were used that way. Still all these people were already known to their secret services. Some even had phone taps already. It was yet another intelligence failure like we saw on 9/11