[Cryptography] Sadly predictable: Terrorism used as excuse to attack encryption

[Tony Arcieri]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Perry E. Metzger <perry at piermont.com>
wrote:

> This New York Times article is, if anything, late to the game:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/world/europe/encrypted-messaging-apps-face-new-scrutiny-over-possible-role-in-paris-attacks.html


The New York Times apparently posted a similar article earlier, then
silently retracted it:

http://www.insidesources.com/new-york-times-article-blaming-encryption-paris-attacks/

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:

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

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.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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