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Why do people think that surveillance is going to thwart real terrorist attacks? Terrorists are not stupid. Bin Laden stopped using his satellite phone in 1999
by aburan28 11y ago
Why do people think that surveillance is going to thwart real terrorist attacks? Terrorists are not stupid. Bin Laden stopped using his satellite phone in 1999 and the NSA did not intercept a single piece of audio intercept data from Bin Laden ever again. The 9/11 hijackers were mostly engineers and barely even touched technology. HUMINT is the only way to catch real terrorists IMO.
- sliverstorm 11y agoHypothetically speaking enough surveillance plus really advanced compute could find criminals indirectly. As a totally fictional example for illustrative purposes, recall Batman's "cell phone sonar" device. You don't have to touch technology to leave a footprint. Your footprints are just harder to find. Edit: I'm not saying it's a good idea, I'm just saying "you can't track terrorists who don't use technology" is false.
- flycaliguy 11y agoIt also indirectly enables criminality by eliminating people's ability to be anonymous sources to police or the press. Along the same lines, it grants anybody with privileged (or unauthorized) access to surveillance data the opportunity for any number of truly maniacal illegal acts.
- pearjuice 11y agoBut that is because 9/11 didn'really happen.
- reddytowns 11y agoHow so?