NBC News Flash this morning…
The tons of refugees may have had something to do with this. Thank God I tuned in to get that nugget!
One of the attackers came through Greece with the other migrants. Is anybody surprised at this? Except for all these stuck up “analysts” etc. who believe in a world that doesn’t exist? According to this pasts night BBC program and some people on it “It is dangerous and sad that now the far right will be able to support their claims about the immigration problem because of a couple extremists out of the hundreds of thousands of good people.” Something like that anyway, with people like this seemingly having the largest influence in society, it kind of makes me wonder why the world has not fallen apart yet.
Something happened at the memorial?
All I’ve seen is people have been cleared out, no reason why.
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France Launches Jets to bomb Syria! Go France Go
Don’t worry, Bernie Sanders said in the debate last night that climate change is still our number one threat, and it’s also responsible for ISIS’s growth.
Up to 300 Syrian Refugees set to settle in Erie County…cool
Someone brought up a good point France just went and bombed known ISIS HQ locations…well if people fucking knew about them why didn’t they get bombed already :lol:
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Lackawannarabia?
Just be nice to them and they won’t decapitate you.
Should be interesting as it is no surprise that they say there are here and ready to attack.
It’s significantly harder to get into the US vs getting in anywhere in Europe and moving around.
I would hope so, but its not impossible.
Except several of them didn’t get into Europe… they were born there. The suspected mastermind was born in Belgium.
ISIS’s has been having success by recruiting from within the countries they want to attack.
Did we already forget the shooting in Garland, TX?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/08/politics/us-isis-supporters-texas-cartoon-attack/
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@LZ1 Serious question… Do you think the government can monitor encrypted text message communications like Apple’s iMessage? There was a lot of talk after the first Paris attack about the governments over there wanting to ban iMessage and WhatsApp because they made it impossible to monitor the communications. I always assumed that was more of a trick trying to make the terrorists think that was a safe form of communication and that the government had no problem reading them.
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I have a high level of faith in the iMessage being mostly secure from the government. The problem is being on point with security 100% of the time people always fuck something up and it takes that one time.
There are tons and tons of other ways to communicate PS4/Xbox/Internet gaming or even random email providers and sharing passwords for accounts using draft emails never sending them.
The UK is already using this to take away more privacy from it citizens its not far off from the “big brother” you see in movies.
Everyone in the government makes this big deal about needing to spy and get all this information but like we have already seen in the US a lot of the terror stuff is home grown and doesn’t directly tie back to someone from another country giving them directions.
So all this talk of, “Since they were they ever able to coordinate an attack like this it shows they were super professional terrorists” is mostly nonsense then. Any 6 idiots could walk into the Apple store, activate 6 iPhones, and have secure group iMessage chats that the government couldn’t see.
It will be interesting to see how strong the knee jerk reaction is considering Europe already spies on it’s own citizens far more than we do here in the US.
http://www.npr.org/2013/07/28/206231873/who-spies-more-the-united-states-or-europe
And when I said “secure from government” I meant mass surveillance.
Nothing is stopping the government from going to Apple and getting decryption keys from backups or whatever manages the keys for iMessage encryption.
Other countries are pushing that all encryption technologies are backdoored so the government can easily decrypt with out warrants…However mandating cryptographically flawed technologies at the same time crying about how we need to increase cyber security don’t work well together.
The government has recently done a horrible job covering up all the fucking around they do with TOR which is a way to
“anonymously” browse the web. - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/fbi-the-allegation-that-we-paid-cmu-1m-to-hack-into-tor-is-inaccurate/
Apple doesn’t have decryption keys I thought they stated where there is no way to intercept iMessage and iCloud access without just brute forcing the account password.
I think this is more related to the bulk collection of data that floods the watch lists and makes finding out who is actually a threat the issue. We seem to know of these people anytime there is an attack, we foil a significant number of them and anytime someone does get through, there seems to be a paper trail on them for being arrested or watch lists so its not that hard to capture messages.