<story><title>Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2015/11/18/signs-point-to-unencrypted-communications-between-terror-suspects/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rtl49</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t mean to downplay the importance of this tragedy for the people involved, but it&amp;#x27;s interesting to observe the media reaction to this event with a more detached frame of mind than I was capable of as a child.&lt;p&gt;The attacks have played right into the hands of parties with political interests lying in wait. For months articles on one or the other side of the encryption &amp;quot;debate&amp;quot; have been produced by news organizations at a low hum. Now that something, anything, loosely relevant has occurred, they can now point to this as further evidence in support of whatever position was espoused over the course of the preceding months. It strikes a person who pays attention to such things as rather methodical.</text></comment>
<story><title>Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2015/11/18/signs-point-to-unencrypted-communications-between-terror-suspects/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>riskable</author><text>The moment my wife and I heard about the attacks in Paris I said to her, &amp;quot;the spooks are going to use this as an excuse to take everyone&amp;#x27;s rights away.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The media response on this was so predictable it was like clockwork:&lt;p&gt;* Conservative media immediately kicks off talking points in regards to, &amp;quot;if more people were carrying guns this wouldn&amp;#x27;t have happened!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;* &amp;quot;Where&amp;#x27;s the outrage from Muslims?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;* &amp;quot;Outraged Muslims say the attackers aren&amp;#x27;t true Muslims because Mohammed forbids killing innocents.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;* &amp;quot;It had to have been Syrian refugees!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;* &amp;quot;Can&amp;#x27;t we just bomb the fsck out of Syria?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;* All manner of insinuations that all Muslims are dangerous and we should &amp;quot;kick them out&amp;quot; or prevent them entry into the our country.&lt;p&gt;...then, attempting to time things just right the spy organizations all over the world ask for everyone to give up their privacy so they can &amp;quot;stop terrorists&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;What we &lt;i&gt;won&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; see in the major news media&amp;#x2F;popular talking heads:&lt;p&gt;* Outrage that despite the billions upon billions invested in spying programs no one was able to predict or stop this attack.  Proving that the vast spying powers granted to governmental organizations don&amp;#x27;t work.&lt;p&gt;* Factual stories pointing out that encryption with back doors won&amp;#x27;t be used by terrorists so it&amp;#x27;s useless against terrorists by definition.&lt;p&gt;* Investigations into &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; the mass collection of everyone&amp;#x27;s personal details didn&amp;#x27;t work and can&amp;#x27;t work to stop these kinds of attacks.&lt;p&gt;* Informative stories about what every-day people or politicians can do to hurt terrorists and stop terrorism.  For example, there will be no one even remotely connecting the dots between oil usage and terrorism.  Or how there&amp;#x27;s a direct link between a country&amp;#x27;s oil revenues and democracy.</text></comment>