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cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

In January, a follower known online as al-Khabir al-Taqni, who identifies himself as a “technical expert,” provided would-be fighters with a list of what he determined were the safest encrypted communications systems available.

“Through this, we can break one of the strongest weapons of the Crusader governments in spying on and tracking the mujahedeen and targeting them with aircraft,” the author said, referring to the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State.

The missive, authenticated by the SITE Intelligence Group which monitors and tracks radical groups online, ranked 33 applications as unsafe, moderately safe, safe, and safest.

Soon after the list was published, Islamic State started moving official communications from Twitter to Telegram Messenger, which received the second-highest safety rating from the Islamic State tech team.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/islamic-state-teaches-tech-savvy-1447720824

more blood on snowden's hands

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tomatoes and shit
Sep 17, 2015

nah man, Snowden is good because free speech or something

Ayn Randi
Mar 12, 2009


Grimey Drawer

cremnob posted:


the Islamic State tech team.


the genius allahu ackbar

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb
wow thats wild we should ban encryption, also the attackers used guns and we should ban those at the same time.

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
I like the idea that we need to break all of the legit consumer encryption because theres totally no chance that the turrists could ever write their own stuff. its just not possible. its math and everyone knows arabs are no good at math.

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
ban cremnob

Cantorsdust
Aug 10, 2008

Infinitely many points, but zero length.

Shaggar posted:

I like the idea that we need to break all of the legit consumer encryption because theres totally no chance that the turrists could ever write their own stuff. its just not possible. its math and everyone knows arabs are no good at math.

some logic:

1. all terrorists are arabs
2. arabs are either good at math or not good at math.
3. if an arab were good at math, he (or she!) would become an engineer and move to america to make a deece 6.5 figgies.
4. engineers in america who make a deece 6.5 figgies don't become terrorists.

therefore:

5. no arabs good at math become terrorists.

Wild EEPROM
Jul 29, 2011


oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.

:toot:

angry_keebler
Jul 16, 2006

In His presence the mountains quake and the hills melt away; the earth trembles and its people are destroyed. Who can stand before His fierce anger?

cremnob posted:

more blood on snowden's hands

hmm it's almost like america's enemies were so spooked they felt they had to switch from practically undetectable free open communication to slow broken garbage the nsa definitely hasn't cracked

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

its extremely sad that so many innocent people are going to die because of a privacy jihadist and his acolytes

Ayn Randi
Mar 12, 2009


Grimey Drawer
jihadi john mcafee

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

A renewed push to give law enforcement and intelligence investigators more power to decrypt commercially sold technology could set Washington on a collision course with Silicon Valley. Many technology companies have rejected law enforcement requests for “back door” coding that would give investigators access to secure communications. Software products are being marketed with a promise that they can’t be decoded, Mr. Burr said, and that might have to change.

“We don’t have a responsibility to sell their products,” the senator said. “We have a responsibility to keep America safe...And if it means that people are going to have to change their business models, then so be it.”

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

fakiebeanplant posted:

nah man, Snowden is good because free speech or something

blaming snowden for terrorists using freely available tools for years including before snowden revealed anything is a little insane.

just letting you know

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

cremnob posted:

its extremely sad that so many innocent people are going to die because of a privacy jihadist and his acolytes

when you use https, you're supporting terror

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

cremnob posted:

its extremely sad that so many innocent people are going to die because of a privacy jihadist and his acolytes

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord
islamic state high school football RULES

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

Salt Fish posted:

wow thats wild we should ban encryption, also the attackers used guns and we should ban those at the same time.

banning guns is good

banning or putting backdoors in encryption is lol

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord
put govt backdoors in guns problem solved

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

jony ive aces posted:

put guns in govt backdoors problem solved

wow, dont get us lf'd

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

im the idea that snowden taught the terrorists that twitter isnt a secure channel of communications

Cyberbird
Jul 18, 2015

jony ive aces posted:

islamic state high school football RULES

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

hypertext terrorism transfer protocol

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream
Snowden rules and I hope someone else follows his lead and drops another dime on the CIA and owns the poo poo out of all their new countermeasures

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

Fabricated posted:

Snowden rules and I hope someone else follows his lead and drops another dime on the CIA and owns the poo poo out of all their new countermeasures

the religion of privacy has given you brain damage

Space-Pope
Aug 13, 2003

by zen death robot

flakeloaf posted:

hypertext terrorism transfer protocol
fatwa transfer protocol

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
cremnob you know im usually a big fan but i have to disagree on this one

Loving Africa Chaps
Dec 3, 2007


We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

Apparently the Paris dudes just used plain old SMS, dat encryption do

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

Cantorsdust posted:

some logic:

1. all terrorists are arabs
2. arabs are either good at math or not good at math.
3. if an arab were good at math, he (or she!) would become an engineer and move to america to make a deece 6.5 figgies.
4. engineers in america who make a deece 6.5 figgies don't become terrorists.

therefore:

5. no arabs good at math become terrorists.

terrorists are actually very likely to be engineers. apparently they come to the west and study engineering and learn to hate our freedom (actually they weren't getting laid in college like any engineer) so they decide our decadent civilization must end

Space-Pope
Aug 13, 2003

by zen death robot
iirc the deal was that they were basically told to get into stem because a wave of westernization is totally around the corner, we swear!

long story short, the westernization never came and now you have a generation of over-educated young men with no real prospects

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

and they practice with clocks

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice
lets all rally around snowden, the libertarian privacy activist who had no problem spying on americans until he had to do it for a black democrat, then suddenly just had to speak out and also move to a tyrannical surveillance state run by a ex-KGB agent


help i'm agreeing with cremnob

Sharktopus
Aug 9, 2006

arab crash text

Wild EEPROM
Jul 29, 2011


oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.
the terrorists used unencrypted sms

therefore the government should require all decides be encrypted.

Hen
Aug 22, 2006

Telegram messenger site forever keeping it classy

Space-Pope
Aug 13, 2003

by zen death robot
lol apparently the server side stuff for telegram is closed off and proprietary

no guys seriously go ahead and use our secure service we promise we're not recording it all no you may not look inside this box

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

What's with the backdoor things anyway? Wouldn't terrorists just keep using pgp instead of upgrading to backdoorcrypt?

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

terror communication protocol / islamist protocol

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

Hen posted:

Telegram messenger site forever keeping it classy



back boobs? I guess that is why teddy is wincing? Not a recommended Google search term.

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duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

cremnob posted:

the religion of privacy has given you brain damage

privacy and secrecy, secrecy and privacy...

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