<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Perry E. Metzger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:perry@piermont.com" target="_blank" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=perry@piermont.com&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;">perry@piermont.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">This New York Times article is, if anything, late to the game:<br>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/world/europe/encrypted-messaging-apps-face-new-scrutiny-over-possible-role-in-paris-attacks.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/world/europe/encrypted-messaging-apps-face-new-scrutiny-over-possible-role-in-paris-attacks.html</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The New York Times apparently posted a similar article earlier, then silently retracted it:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.insidesources.com/new-york-times-article-blaming-encryption-paris-attacks/">http://www.insidesources.com/new-york-times-article-blaming-encryption-paris-attacks/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>That said, for all the talk of crypto being a terrorist tool, allegedly (Daily Mail, quoting Fox News, take it with a grain of salt...) ISIS social media accounts were already posting pictures of the Eiffel Tower along with "God bless you on your mission" 72 hours before the attack:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3320732/ISIS-supporters-shared-images-Eiffel-Tower-weapons-social-media-72-hours-Paris-attack-urged-God-bless-mission.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3320732/ISIS-supporters-shared-images-Eiffel-Tower-weapons-social-media-72-hours-Paris-attack-urged-God-bless-mission.html</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>It would be rather ironic if ISIS committed an opsec failure that bad which intelligence services weren't able to pick up on, and yet encryption is blamed anyway.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Tony Arcieri<br></div>
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