Posted on 06/28/2015 6:29:48 PM PDT by markomalley
The Islamic State terrorist army is snatching up the latest off-the-shelf encrypted applications to hide their military planning, with fighters publicly thanking former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden for tipping them on U.S. spying tactics.
The West’s fertile tech laboratories have unwittingly become the Islamic State’s research and development arm for free messaging software. It uses the apps to recruit followers, defeat the U.S.-led coalition and expand conquests in Iraq and Syria.
The Islamic State’s mastery of secure communications is an especially important advance because its commanders do their attack planning — and then execution — via the Internet and smartphones. The Islamic State, also known as ISIL and ISIS, has set up cybercommand posts. It recently published photos it said showed commanders orchestrating a suicide bombing and relaying information from the Internet by cellphone to the attackers.
Al Qaeda and its followers for years have tried to encrypt telephone and email messages. Documents seized in the 2011 raid of Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout confirm this.
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It’s something how these primitive barbarians use advantage technology in an attempt to drive civilization back to the stone age.
Since the powerful encryption algorithms are all available in open-source libraries, anyone can write such an app, so you don’t even need to download it.
I have the C source code library for Blowfish, right on this computer.
Just nuke them and be done with it. Everything else is just distraction.
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