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0 pointstptacek13y ago0 comments

Why do you think people looking to do harm don't use phones? Why do you assume the use of burners makes telephonic surveillance pointless? Are you attributing to adversaries the best possible set of circumstances and smallest possible set of constraints?

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brymaster13y ago· 1 in thread

I think the argument I wanted to make was that the people NSA claim to be after aren't using your typical contractual phone plans, since OP was suggesting they should simply track call logs.

Sure they used pre-paid phones as well as pay phones, hotmail and were still using coded and hidden messages.

Today they'd be using that steganography over cryptography.

Few sources: http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-4985597.html

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/11/al_qaeda_secre...

tptacekOP13y ago

The fact that these people might use disposable phones is actually one of the reasons USG supporters give in favor of hoovering all the telephony "metadata".

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