Big Data Firm Says It Can Link Snowden Data To Changed Terrorist Behavior
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#2I don't think that's terribly difficult. The NSA has obviously changed their behavior.
/snippy internet comment
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#3God is perfectly just. You can put God on TV talking from His temple.
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#41) There is nothing that indicates that this "encryption upgrade" wasn't planned for some time. Correlation ≠ causation, and all that.
2) The very word "terrorist" is disputed, and depends on your side in any given dispute. It is the "high treason" of the 20th and 21st century, an accusation or insinuation used mainly for political reasons and not for actual utility: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism "In the international community, terrorism has no legally binding, criminal law definition."
3) The fact that 21st century treason is being casually associated with open source is DEEPLY disconcerting to me. I would go to war for a very few things, but any attack on open source is a direct attack on me AFAIC.
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#5I don't think that's terribly difficult. The NSA has obviously changed their behavior. /snippy internet comment
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#6It's wholesale surveillance, surely everyone has changed their behaviour by at least a little.
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#7"...for years, al-Qaida has used an encryption program written by its own coders called Mujahideen Secrets."
Wow, that's crazy! I had no idea. Al-Qaida does their own software development? So weird.
Using their own homebrew encryption algorithms is a terrible idea, though. The NSA must have been all over this thing.
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#8Seems pretty tenuous to me. The 'link' seems to be 'some months after Snowden, those guys released new software with new capabilities'.
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#9Did Snowden reveal anything about "Mujahideen Secrets" or whether the NSA was able to unscramble communications made using that program? If it really was using homebrew cryptography, one can imagine it was already vulnerable to the types of attacks that programmers make when rolling their own security schemes.
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#10"...for years, al-Qaida has used an encryption program written by its own coders called Mujahideen Secrets." Wow, that's crazy! I had no idea. Al-Qaida does their own software development? So weird. Using their own homebrew encryption algorithms is a terrible idea, though. The NSA must have been all over this thing.
It's in this particular case, a great idea. And I hope this comment will strengthen those responsible in their attitude that what they build is absolutely unbreakable.