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ISIS Supporters Abandon U.S. Encryption Tools As Apple-FBI Fight Rages
blottsie writes: Islamic State militants and supporters are promoting strong encryption tools from outside the United States that the American government cannot touch with legislation. In the last month, Islamic State supporters have promoted security software from Finland, Romania, America, France, the Czech Republic, Canada, Panama, Germany, Switzerland, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and other nations, a Daily Dot review found. The international availability of encryption technology, of which Islamic State militants are well aware, underscores FBI Director James Comey's long-held desire to build an international legal regime to deal with the problems posed by encryption, what he calls "going dark."
FBI must be desperate, trying to lump people who believe in security with terrorists...
The current one is shaking his fist at a storm. Why can't we hire someone who has some common sense about technology?
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, encryption is here to stay--and there's nothing you can do about it.
Islamic State supporters have promoted security software from Finland, Romania, America, France, the Czech Republic, Canada, Panama, Germany, Switzerland, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and other nations, a Daily Dot review found.
For the people that love (falsely) claiming that they came up w/ the number system and zero, it's fascinating that they have to promote encryption software from the above countries - ALL non-Muslim - to protect their jihad-plotting communications from being broken into. Can't they get encryption software from Islamic paradises, like Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Emirates, Iran, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, et al? Or (gasp), even roll their own in their labs in Raqqa, Mosul, Sirte...
If you outlaw good cryptography, then only outlaws will have good cryptography
Speak for yourself.
That's exactly what America needs to worry about. If our government is only going to be able to spy on us but not our adversary, then it makes sense that they'll be shooting their missiles at us instead of our adversaries. We'll have no defense, unlike ISIS. We The People need to keep up with ISIS and make sure that we are at least as hard to spy on, as they are.
So I think that means we need to get our computers and software from overseas. And if that means US economy shifts from tech jobs to McDonalds jobs, then I guess we are getting the policies that we wanted back when we decided to vote for Democrats and Republicans, instead of serious real-life politicians.
It always comes back to the same thing: we met the enemy, and it was us. America is America's biggest problem.
Before the big commotion between the FBI and Apple, they (the FBI) at least had a chance of breaking into a phone (made by Apple) that was used by an ISIS member (by the help of Apple, through legal means). Now the FBI has essentially shot themselves in the foot. Their demands have basically been a loud horn warning ISIS to stay away from the very technology (phones by American companies) that they could actually get access to... 'cause... well, good luck getting foreign companies to make backdoors for you.
the US is a country spending nearly 1.4 trillion dollars per year on defense. It dwarfs the spending of the next 7 largest countries combined. Americans endured this sort of breakneck spending for 50 years under the guise that, once communism fell, we would embrace a newfound wave of peace in the west.
instead we've invented boogeymen by hook and by crook. We invented ISIS by the iraq war. We invented the iraq war by weapons of mass destruction. we invented the war on terror by 9/11. we invented 9/11 by founding and training al-quaeda. we invented al-quaeda by funding an training the mujahadeen. we invented the war in afghanistan by proxy through our desire to defeat russias communism. we invented communism as a threat through the implicit desire of our oligarchy and capital class to disarm any real objection to capitalism by any means necessary.
now we're faced with a guerilla enemy, as we were when we created most of our proxy wars in central and south america...but the rules have changed. our "wars" before were innocuous as they werent winnable or loseable, only profitable. we would fight until public opinion turned, then broker a peace deal and leave. Sometimes with oil contracts, other times with infrastructure contracts. Now with the advent of a perfect shield by which our newly created enemy can conceal their intent, we are all but on a level playing field. an actor needs no longer obtain advanced weapons or tactics to defeat us, they merely need to plan extensively.
the solution is to step back from the carter doctrine of foreign policy, and deprecate our dependency on defense economy.
Good people go to bed earlier.
FBI must be desperate, trying to lump people who believe in security with terrorists...
Not desperate. Just self interested and politically savvy. Accusing someone you oppose politically of being soft on or aligned with crime/terrorism is one of the oldest plays in politics. It's how we end up with absurd things like mandatory minimum and three strikes laws that do nothing to prevent crime. It's how we end up with a prison camp in Cuba, extraordinary rendition, torture, etc and the government doing nothing about it. Speak out against those things and you just feed ammo to your political enemies.
The FBI wants their job to be as easy as possible. They'll pay lip service to observing the constitution but at the end of the day they'll take making their job easier over your civil rights every time.
How many bombs were dropping on their head in 1993 (first WTC). How many bombs were dropping on their heads in 2001?
Maybe the topic is more complicated than Western bombing causing terrorism.
If you're scared of your govt then you need to further restrict its powers
Vote 3rd Party in 2016 and beyond
Analysts will double check the location to verify that the target is legit before sending off a drone.
That's a good one...their check will be, "Are they brown and in the Middle East? Then we're good to go."
After all the blown up wedding parties in Afghanistan, the military is trying to avoid those mistakes.
They're only trying to avoid the publicity.
Go on, citizen, stamp the vote card. R or D, your choice.
Referring to the US as "America" is pretty much accepted by everyone other than pedants and people with an axe to grind .
FTFY.
What part of "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand?
But seriously, encryption is for the government what a time-locked fridge is for a fatso. They just can't help themselves, they got no impulse control, they need help. Encryption is the solution to help a government that can't help themselves.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
Quit it with your American exceptionalism, it is wrong headed and false, America categorically is referred in a different manner by the various countries and cultures stuck with sharing that land mass with citizens of the United States of America. That is a fact, quit with the bullshit of the United States of America and it's definitions of anything being the only one there is, go away with your childish spelling and stop with any kind of claims to intellectual dominance, you numb nuts can not even manage switching to metric, lead heads (not an insult a fact, not your fault, the fault of various corrupt players and their greed, dumbing down you nation by poisoning it, mind bogglingly still to this day and still not one arrest.)
Of course if they were actually serious about terrorists, instead of just using it to implement the police state in a rich versus poor class war, they would fucking quit it with giving those terrorists a political identity to enable recruitment, this being perversely enough purposefully done by the military industrial complex to drive more fear and sell more war. They would simply call them crime gangs, with gang bosses, the crime gang would have no identity beyond being labelled as the crime gang of a particular crime boss and the various subordinate controllers. Members would not be political activist, they would simply pliable and gullible violent rapist minions, slaves to the greed of the gang bosses, nothing more than egoistic crime cults.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen