Quote from: practicaldreamer on November 17, 2015, 10:38:50 PM

Quote from: MatTheCat on November 17, 2015, 09:28:46 PM

..our governments need to take away all our civil liberties in order to protect us from the extremists (that they let in)

They tell us it was complex military planning and the internet/encryption is to blame (George Osbourne today). But to me it was 8 blokes meeting in a cafe and agreeing to die at 11pm. They synchronised watches. How complicated is that ? It went on before encrypted network communications, and it will happen after. Except after, we'll all be compromised - and powerless.

Quote from: MatTheCat on November 17, 2015, 09:28:46 PM

Furthermore, having a significant minority population that is at odds with the values of the society in which it is implented, should prove a fucking fantastic scapegoat for the great unwashed, when the music finally stops playing

Yes - spot on. You'd think that by the extremely small numbers of people that actually seem to get it, that it was rocket science or something.

A newly released study agrees. It found no increase in encrypted communications among jihadist networks.

https://fpjintel.com/public-reports/measuring-the-impact-of-the-snowden-leaks-on-the-use-of-encryption-by-online-jihadists/

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Online jihadists were already aware that law enforcement and intelligence agencies were attempting to monitor them, the Snowden revelations likely merely confirmed the suspicions of many of these actors, the more advanced of which were already making use ofand developingsecure communications software.