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I've gotta believe these organizations can find one or two developers among the billions of muslims on this planet. Why wouldn't they just write their own apps

• vonklaus 11y ago
  The Mexican cartels captured and paid engineers to build them there own private cell network[0], so it isn't out of the realm of possibility that ISIS is doing something similar. I am sure they have at least a few engineers kicking around what amounts to be an entire country. I haven't heard many people harping on about encryption, TBH, except people defending it here and that idotic NYT article. However, if you had 10 amazing engineers you would likely have strike capabilities orders of magnitude higher than a few suicide bombers. So sure, gather surveillance, but let's play some defense. Shore up our infrastructure much better than we do now, because after they make their own apps and networks, they are going to come for ours potentially. [0]http://www.wired.com/2012/11/zeta-radio/ http://www.wired.com/2012/11/zeta-radio/
• jacquesm 11y ago
  They could and they did. They have recruited quite a few people with more than just basic IT knowledge.