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Recored Future is disputing WaPo's findings: https://www.recordedfuture.com...
Furthermore, the US seems to be on a PR campaign to blame NK. Yesterday, FBI&DHS put out a report claiming that big bad NK was building a botnet. They put out 8-year-old IOCs: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/a...
Someone's pushing an agenda here...

Are the new communication methods adopted by jihadists since Snowden's disclosures more effective against surveillance?

Yes.

If you can't show the superiority of these new methods over the old, then Snowden's disclosures didn't really cause any harm in this area.

It's demonstrable.

How Al-Qaeda Uses Encryption Post-Snowden (Part 2) – New Analysis in Collaboration With ReversingLabs

How Al-Qaeda Uses Encryption Post-Snowden (Part 1)

Analysis Summary

Since 2007, Al-Qaeda’s use of encryption technology has been based on the Mujahideen Secrets platform which has developed to include support for mobile, instant messaging, and Macs.

Following the June 2013 Edward Snowden leaks we observe an increased pace of innovation, specifically new competing jihadist platforms and three (3) major new encryption tools from three (3) different organizations – GIMF, Al-Fajr Technical Committee, and ISIS – within a three to five-month time frame of the leaks.

Washington Post: The Volokh Conspiracy - As evidence mounts, it’s getting harder to defend Edward Snowden

Washington Post: The Volokh Conspiracy - As evidence mounts, it’s getting harder to defend Edward Snowden

How Al-Qaeda Uses Encryption Post-Snowden (Part 1)

http://www.recordedfuture.com/

another ^ thing to fsck us all

obviously you have no reason to believe my testimony, and i'm not going to risk the anonymity of the people who told me this, but they were real google employees. I presume there are many real Google employees on Slashdot and maybe some of them will weigh in, if they feel comfortable doing so. Google's internal philosophy that algorithms solve everything is well-known. So is its investment in a variety of predictive technologies; even reading through the documentation of its cloud-based Prediction API (likely much less extensive than Google's own internal systems) suggests many services that, when applied to the workplace itself rather than interactions with customers/projects, would make this sort of capability not just possible but even likely. Look especially at things like "sentiment analysis" https://developers.google.com/prediction/ https://developers.google.com/prediction/docs/sentiment_analysis Third-party companies sell related technology as well: http://toatech.com/company/ Google (and the CIA, if you want me to play the excited alarmist) have both invested in a company called Recorded Future, apparently a successful purveyor of "predictive analytics": http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/ Recorded future appears to be a real company: https://www.recordedfuture.com/this-is-recorded-future/