[Cryptography] ISIS has ‘help desk’ to ai d would-be terrorists with encryption

[Henry Baker]

At 06:53 AM 11/19/2015, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>There is no evidence of any communication between DAESH HQ and the attackers of any sort.
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>But even if the attack was performed on orders from HQ, there is no reason to believe that these amounted to anything more than 'kill as many infidels as you can in a European capital of your choice as soon as possible'.
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>There is no reason to believe that DAESH HQ would have anything to contribute to the planning of the attack.
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>So what we have here is a clash of cultures.
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>The highly centralized, rigid, US military is unable to function without constant communication.
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>At this point, the decision to launch missiles from a drone is frequently taken at the level of Colonel or above.
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>Being used to this situation, the US military seems unable to comprehend that another organization would not consider it necessary.
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>Which is really odd since only a few decades ago, US special ops would have conducted operations under complete radio silence as a matter of course.

Apparently, even though the US had completely broken the Japanese codes, the Navy still lost track of the Japanese fleet *due to total radio silence* (this problem wasn't completely fixed until spy satellites were deployed), so Pearl Harbor was a "complete" surprise (except that radar picked up the incoming planes, but apparently no one was willing to believe that new-fangled radar technology).