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Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes with a story at Ars Technica, citing a Yahoo News interview, that National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers has explicitly blamed the terrorist attacks which struck Paris last November on communications backed by strong crypto. From the article:
Because of encrypted communications, he said, "we did not generate the insights ahead of time. Clearly, had we known, Paris would not have happened."
Rogers did not explicitly re-launch the campaign waged by FBI director James Comey to force technology companies to provide a "golden key" to encrypted communications. Rogers called encryption "foundational to our future" and added that arguing over encryption backdoors was "a waste of time." But he did say that encryption was making the job of the NSA and law enforcement more difficult.
The interview comes shortly after the FBI won an order requiring Apple to provide technical means to bypass the security measures preventing them from unlocking the iPhone 5C belonging to Syed Rizwan Farook. Farook, along with his wife, are responsible for the December mass shooting in San Bernardino, California."
Bullshit. The Paris attackers did not use encrypted communications.
Was this an intelligence failure? Possibly. Was it an intelligence failure due to a lack of backdoors and/or laws against cryptography? Absolutely not.
Thomas Galvin
FTA: Rogers' claims about Paris contradict the information that came out of France following the attacks. There were claims by former US intelligence officials that encrypted communications had been used by the Islamic State affiliated terrorists in the immediate wake of the attacks. But those claims were largely dismissed by French authorities when they looked at the actual communications on devices recovered from the group. According to statements from French law enforcement, the attackers had used standard SMS messages to communicate—not encrypted messaging apps on smartphones. http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
the war on drugs seems to be working...it is doing a pretty good job of keeping Pseudoephedrine out of the hands of some very sick individuals...
there is something wrong when it takes a dna sample and being added to 3 watch lists to buy good cold medicine.
Repeating it again and again doesn't make it true, it only makes it truthy. Which, alas, seems to be good enough for a lot of people.
Impossible. France has strict gun control.
Your goggles are on too tight... you don't have to look very far back in time to find the IRA and other Christian groups doing their thing. Remember also the Tokyo ricin attacks? That was some local cult. How about David Koresh and Jim Jones?
Less is more.
Actually, their lies go far deeper than that. The terrorist group involved have a glossy color magazine called Dabiq. Apparently that magazine carried an interview with the leader of the Brussels / Paris cell where he announced that he was planning to hit Paris. Several months before the attacks. I wonder if any of the secret services read the thing, it is in English.
Mielipiteet omiani - Opinions personal, facts suspect.
Dark skinned guy crossing borders and using encryption, what could be more suspicious?
What could be more suspicious ?
Adi Shamir trying to attend the Cryptology conference he did start him-self in the 80s ?
According to the US that's even worse.
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It appears that your first link is regarding a different Mike Rogers - Representative Mike Rogers from Michigan, whereas the gentleman in the article linked in the story is Vice Admiral Mike Rogers, NSA Director.
Its confusing that there are 2 prominent political representatives named Mike Rogers as well as the director of the NSA, and that at lest 2 of the 3 are talking about crypto issues, but to keep the lines clear and make proper arguments, particularly about the veracity of someone's statements, its best to be clear on the facts.
Give me a break. The mastermind of the Paris attack was born in Belgium and his dad was a shopkeeper. They weren't desperate or dead inside or in misery. They were radicalized by religious people IN EUROPE who have their own agenda.