Report: ISIS Using Snowden Documents to Evade U.S. Intel Efforts

Free Beacon ^ | July 21, 2015 | Lachlan Markey

[lbryce]

WARNING! EXTREMELY REPREHENSIBLE AND GORY
When Snowden first released his cache of secrets he had seen himself as some sort of hero. Releasing to the world information about the world's most notorious terrorist state,the USA and helping to make the world a better place.

Well now he's probably thinking differently. As you know, ISIS has conjured up new and horrific ways to kill their enemies. The most recent death sentence meted out by ISIS is a chilling macabre approach towards punishing their enemies.

While until know they would behead prisoners and let them bleed to death.

But that stopped giving them erections. So they're latest form of entertainment via execution was to cut off the penises of their captors and allow them to bleed to death.

I'd like to see Snowden suffer the same consequences

[SunkenCiv]

Impossible, Edward Snowden is a *hero*. /s Thanks lbryce. Ron Paul: Iran Agreement Boosts Peace, Defeats Neocons (Barf).

[lormand]

I NEVER saw Snowden as a hero, instead, he is a traitor and a coward.

[Uncle Miltie]

I’d be offended if we were actually prosecuting a war against ISIS.

[PGR88]

Some people want a socialist nanny state that gathers up massive amounts of private electronic data to fight distant enemies, but doesn’t want this same government power to control your health care, where you live, what you eat, track all your money, run the welfare state, or conduct 1000 social engineering schemes.

Sorry, but you can’t separate the two.

[Buckeye McFrog]

There was a story out the other day that commercial services like Google are starting to use encryption that is unbreakable, and refusing to let the government inside the shell. So increasingly the whole NSA might be a moot point.

[SpaceBar]

officials told the New York Times...

I smell a set-up.

[Iscool]

I doubt there’s an ounce of truth to it...

[hosepipe]

By the way.... whatever happened to the FBI?...

Were they de-funded.?.. Dis-continued.?.. or merged with the Obama for Emperor Team?..

You never hear of them anymore...

All of the in your face, treason, sedition and even espionage going on and they are AWOL.. ABSENT, not to seen or heard from..

Are they Complicit?..

[DesertRhino]

When I’m looking for blame on ISIS, ill look at McCain, Hillary, and Obama who supplied them arms through Benghazi via Turkey.

As for Snowden, they love to release propaganda about how evil he was, but the truth is, the NSA decided to illegally intercept and store all domestic electronic communications.
And the uniparty is angry that he spilled the beans.

[Erik Latranyi]

Another effort to smear Snowden.

ISIS has no threat from the Obama Administration, so it does not need anything that could be found in Snowden’s releases.

Yes, the gov’t collecting massive amounts of information on citizens is WRONG.

[Paladin2]

Why didn’t the NSA get the latest domestic jihadi?

[Flick Lives]

officials told the New York Times... I smell a set-up.

Bingo. Planted story to deflect from the latest intel screw-up with the Tenn. shooter. The NSA has mountains of data, but couldn't detect a fish in a barrel.

[cynwoody]

There was a story out the other day that commercial services like Google are starting to use encryption that is unbreakable, and refusing to let the government inside the shell. So increasingly the whole NSA might be a moot point.

You might find it amusing to google perfect forward secrecy. With PFS, they can't decrypt previous intercepts even if Google were to disgorge the private key in effect at the time.

But the truth is, you can't trust any channel unless you and your correspondent do your own encryption. Any encryption done by the channel is subject to compromise.

[GOPJ]

... {ISIS} latest form of ... execution was to cut off the penises of their captors and allow them to bleed to death.

They're all 'lone wolves'... each ISIS thug is a lone wolf. Right?

The real people to fear are white middle-class Americans with children.

Ask the commie shits at the Southern Poverty Law Center...

Ask the lefty traitors in the FBI and IRS and DHS - people who target innocent citizens because they're traditional Americans.

And ask our dear leader who had to be shamed into lowering the American flag for the slaughtered ones from Chattanooga ...

[huldah1776]

So, Russia, Iran, China, and N. Korea all have the same info.

[JoeFromSidney]

But the truth is, you can't trust any channel unless you and your correspondent do your own encryption. Any encryption done by the channel is subject to compromise.

One-time-pads provide secure encryption, PROVIDED that the numbers are genuinely random, and that they are used ONLY ONCE. The problem with them is distributing them to people to whom you want to send encrypted messages.

"Random numbers" generated by a computer are really pseudo-random. They can satisfy tests of randomness (each digit appears approximately one-tenth of the time, each pair one-hundredth of the time, autocorrelation is very small, etc.) However, they eventually repeat. Genuinely random numbers never repeat. The repetition makes it comparatively easy to break the encryption of long messages.

I've tested "random" numbers obtained from tables of statistical data, such as population of cities, from sources such as the STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF THE UNITED STATES. They not only pass randomness tests but have low autocorrelation, and don't repeat. You need to agree on page number, line number, etc. so the recipient knows where to start picking numbers.

Another alternative is to get a set of "gamers dice," i.e. 10-sided dice, and generate your own random numbers. Again, you have to distribute the one-time-pads to the people with whom you want to communicate.

Getting a big "supply" of random numbers is not easy, but it can be done with some degree of effort. Do it before you need it.

[cynwoody]

Another alternative is to get a set of "gamers dice," i.e. 10-sided dice, and generate your own random numbers. Again, you have to distribute the one-time-pads to the people with whom you want to communicate.

That's so World War I. They actually had paper code books, which needed to go down with the ship in the event of trouble.

Come World War II, the Germans and the Japanese tried to automate the process, building machines on which you could type cleartext and get ciphertext or vice-versa. However, those systems still suffered from key distribution problems and resulting operator corner-cutting and were both broken.

These days, we use public key cryptography to solve the key distribution problem. And when we need true random numbers, well, there's a device for that:

$ head -c 256 /dev/random|xxd
0000000: c0c2 e812 fdaa 4200 3608 0f8f c1d5 551a  ......B.6.....U.
0000010: 435c bed8 a321 5c41 578f 7c81 7d62 f1d6  C\...!\AW.|.}b..
0000020: 7a9f 7e5e d76c 7fc7 042f 688a 77d6 fa36  z.~^.l.../h.w..6
0000030: 33b9 b129 3ff8 8c41 1ced 0902 aef3 6989  3..)?..A......i.
0000040: d303 3dde b4e0 7de8 ac51 4467 c410 7ec2  ..=...}..QDg..~.
0000050: 2e57 b3db 87c2 06a3 5126 cd59 849a 110f  .W......Q&.Y....
0000060: f49f 6699 33e1 e7a9 a583 bd83 2afe 94b0  ..f.3.......*...
0000070: 0a3d 18cb d889 d85b da72 4892 ed46 5562  .=.....[.rH..FUb
0000080: bc9a 0be0 4b20 4ec8 fa12 b172 dc75 22d3  ....K N....r.u".
0000090: 24a1 f148 d2fa 7c85 84ab b2dc 15e9 6c43  $..H..|.......lC
00000a0: 2e07 512c 2fb0 9565 b5af 940f fcdd dec8  ..Q,/..e........
00000b0: bc83 9f9c 9954 4989 a850 d246 1b54 27fb  .....TI..P.F.T'.
00000c0: 74b2 85c0 14e9 a306 949c 6417 4281 339c  t.........d.B.3.
00000d0: 7db1 178e 6e6a 585c 432c 5618 8c31 358a  }...njX\C,V..15.
00000e0: 938a 649d 59d4 d7e1 dbb2 5d5d 4b6d 43d8  ..d.Y.....]]KmC.
00000f0: 888b 3721 112b ac0b 92a0 15c8 c7ea 96a3  ..7!.+..........

It all happens under the covers whenever you see the green padlock in the location bar.

[cowboyusa]

That sentence tells you all you need to know.

[FLCowboy,]

officials told the New York Times... 

I smell a set-up. 

My thoughts exactly. Did Snowdon publish the documents? I think Obama needs to blame someone, Snowdon is the only person outside his administration that he has to blame. If ISIS is that good deciphering codes, just think what Russia has done.