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Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinate Via Unencrypted SMS (techdirt.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the out-in-the-open dept.

schwit1 writes: In the wake of the tragic events in Paris last week encryption has continued to be a useful bogeyman for those with a voracious appetite for surveillance expansion. Like clockwork, numerous reports were quickly circulated suggesting that the terrorists used incredibly sophisticated encryption techniques, despite no evidence by investigators that this was the case. These reports varied in the amount of hallucination involved, the New York Times even having to pull one such report offline. Other claims the attackers had used encrypted Playstation 4 communications also wound up being bunk.

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  1. SMS by sims+2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    O RLY?

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    Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
  2. In further investigations by cas2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    police have found that the terrorists breathed air, drank water, and wore clothes in order to carry out their attacks. Police and security agencies have united in calling for these things to be banned immediately.

  3. Re: Damned Lies And Politics by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 5, Funny

    We couldn't intercept them without encryption, imagine if they had used any!