> Israel disputed the idea that police are at a disadvantage due to encryption. Thanks to our growing digital footprints, he said, law enforcement has seen a “m

> Israel disputed the idea that police are at a disadvantage due to encryption. Thanks to our growing digital footprints, he said, law enforcement has seen a “massive increase” in their ability to monitor people. “That’s more than counterbalanced any potential drop-off there has been over these new types of communication tools,” he said. “Overall, they have a much more robust picture of what we’re doing [and] who we’re doing it with … than was the case historically.” This guy is on crack. Even the most incompetent, nontechnical kids can (and do) know how to use zero-config commodity software to obfuscate their IPs, launder their traffic and compartmentalize their online lives across enough disparate services over time enough to be unattributable to their offline selves.