Gotta get dem backdoors, because Paris. Also, Snowden is a murderer.
ISIS encrypted communications with Paris attackers, French officials say
Former CIA director claims Snowden "has blood on his hands" for tipping off terrorists.The investigation into last Friday's coordinated terrorist attacks
has quickly turned up evidence that members of the Islamic State (ISIS)
communicated with the attackers from Syria using encrypted communications, according to French officials.
Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell said in an interview on
CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday, "I think what we're going to learn is
that these guys are communicating via these encrypted apps, this
commercial encryption which is very difficult or nearly impossible for
governments to break, and the producers of which don't produce the keys
necessary for law enforcement to read the encrypted messages."
The use of encrypted communications by ISIS has prompted various
former intelligence officials and media analysts to blame NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden for tipping off terrorist organizations to
intelligence agencies' surveillance capabilities and for their "going
dark" with their communications. Former CIA Director James Woolsey said
in multiple interviews that former NSA contractor and whistleblower
Edward Snowden "has blood on his hands," and the changes made by the
Obama administration to surveillance as a result of the Snowden leaks
and the changes that terrorists made in communicating with each other
based on the leaks had led directly to the inability of the intelligence
community in the US and in France to stop the Paris attacks from
happening.
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Yeah, let's backdoor crypto. Sounds like a great idea. However, please don't read about how the US government's efforts to undermine encryption in the 90s led to the FREAK and logjam attacks in our modern age, and thus made us all less safe. No, don't read about that at all, just be free to do what they tell you, because you're free to do what they tell you. Free, to do what they tell you. Free, to do what they tell you.