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ISIS Help Desk Assists In Covering Tracks (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The ISIS terror group appears to have 5 to 6 members offering 24-hour support on how to encrypt communications, hide personal details and use apps like Twitter while avoiding surveillance. It's kind of like a 'help desk,' though not an actual call center hiding in the hills. It is a group of IT specialists answering questions from locations spread out all over the world, according to Aaron Brantly at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. It has been find out that the advice is largely being relayed on an ISIS channel on Telegram, a messaging app that has become popular among members of the group because it allows for special secret chats. The jihadi help desk has lengthy training manuals, and Brantly has reviewed over 300 pages of training documents and roughly 25 YouTube videos that provide tips to evade intelligence agencies and law enforcement.
I bet my rear end that no later than tomorrow we'll get to hear about how we have to outlaw telling people how to use encryption and how to avoid being tracked on the internet.
I am confident that we can rely on Cameron to not disappoint us.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
These guys are running a solid business.
The overwhelming majority of their revenue is acquired through theft.
I'd hardly call that a "solid business."
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
So would the Department of Internal Revenue.
would have modded you up if you had written something like devi^%E$^ instead of just devi
Modern digital protocols don't generate static or line noise. This isn't 1992.