Everything you say is valid. And I'm glad that you specify "top of the chain" as it is less likely than some mope at the bottom. But that's my point. it is these lower level people, maybe even up to mid level which are…
I suppose it all comes down to what you term consitutes "easy" It's easy if you already have access to or can collect on and analyze metadata from as many sources as possible. Then it's easy(ish) Without it.. where do…
I was trying to be sarcastic :) as if 9/11 was such a low number of fatalities that it wouldn't we worth addressing..
I'm not sure I'm hearing you right. Say you're President. How many lives would an act of pre-meditated terror have take to be worth your while? 10000? what if it were 100 a day for 100 days? Still less than car…
What bazillion is trying to get across is that people are people. They tend towards that which is most convenient and least painful. Sure, HN could come up with the worlds most secure, least detectable, most effective…
being smart doesn't preclude you from having someone stupid in your ranks. This applies to anyone trying to hide their activities. And im glad you're so sure about the comsec of all terrorist/spies/criminals.. totally…
well they don't use it anymore, thanks to snowden We all better hope that Bloomberg/Vice is more authoritative on this subject than the intelligence community or else the NON-ZERO number of terrorism cases involving…
Everything you say is valid. And I'm glad that you specify "top of the chain" as it is less likely than some mope at the bottom. But that's my point. it is these lower level people, maybe even up to mid level which are…
I suppose it all comes down to what you term consitutes "easy" It's easy if you already have access to or can collect on and analyze metadata from as many sources as possible. Then it's easy(ish) Without it.. where do…
I was trying to be sarcastic :) as if 9/11 was such a low number of fatalities that it wouldn't we worth addressing..
I'm not sure I'm hearing you right. Say you're President. How many lives would an act of pre-meditated terror have take to be worth your while? 10000? what if it were 100 a day for 100 days? Still less than car…
What bazillion is trying to get across is that people are people. They tend towards that which is most convenient and least painful. Sure, HN could come up with the worlds most secure, least detectable, most effective…
being smart doesn't preclude you from having someone stupid in your ranks. This applies to anyone trying to hide their activities. And im glad you're so sure about the comsec of all terrorist/spies/criminals.. totally…
well they don't use it anymore, thanks to snowden We all better hope that Bloomberg/Vice is more authoritative on this subject than the intelligence community or else the NON-ZERO number of terrorism cases involving…