Paris Attacks Blamed on Strong Cryptography and Edward Snowden
John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Tue Nov 17 08:06:53 PST 2015
Wheedling about crypto and Snowden diverts from
CIA Director's full speech and broader critique. CIA version omits Q&A.
<https://t.co/d6tAq2PiZi>http://csis.org/files/attachments/151116_GSF_OpeningSession.pdf
To be sure, commentators must promote their
products to flatter their consumers as do spies, officials and
armaments (crypto) producers.
Officials buy the armaments to gain votes and
post-service directorships, word artists blow wind to fan the flames.
"This Is War!" Perfect for all consumers except
the slaughtered, a few of which get ritual
mourning (most ignored, unreported, unsacrelized, unheroricized, unencrypted).
Hard to tell the difference between opportunistic
warmongerers or anti-warmongerers, so ying and yang in complicity.
At 10:03 AM 11/17/2015, you wrote:
>1.
><https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/paris_attacks_b.html>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/paris_attacks_b.html
>2.
>https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/
>
><<As Paris reels from terrorist attacks that
>have claimed at least 128 lives, fierce blame
>for the carnage is being directed toward
>American whistleblower Edward Snowden and the
>spread of strong encryption catalyzed by his
>actions. Now the Paris attacks are being used an excuse to demand back doors>>
>
>
><<how can âofficialsâ and their media
>stenographers persist in trying to convince
>people of such a blatant, easily disproven
>falsehood: namely, that Terrorists learned to
>hide their communications from Snowdenâs
>revelations? They do it because of how many
>benefits there are from swindling people to
>believe this. To begin with, U.S officials are
>eager here to demonize far more than just Snowden
>They want to demonize encryption generally as
>well as any companies that offer it. Indeed, as
>these media accounts show, theyâve been trying
>for two decades to equate the use of encryption
> anything that keeps them out of peopleâs
>private onlinee communications with aiding and abetting The Terrorists>>
>
><<Above all, thereâs the desperation to
>prevent people from asking how and why ISIS was
>able to spring up seemingly out of nowhere and
>be so powerful, able to blow up a Russian
>passenger plane, a market in Beirut, and the
>streets of Paris in a single week. Thatâs the
>one question Western officials are most
>desperate not to be asked, so directing
>peopleâs ire to Edward Snowden and strong
>encryption is beneficial in the extreme>>
>
>
><<Thereâs the related question of how ISIS has
>become so well-armed and powerful. There are
>many causes, but a leading one is the role
>played by the U.S. and its âallies in the
>regionâ (i.e., Gulf tyrannies) in arming them>>
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