United States of Spying

[Grumpy Gramps]

As much as I am for capturing the dude and putting him on trial...we are talking about a dude from a terrorist group they got on video beheading people, making propaganda vids beheading people...during a war...in Syria. Somehow I'm ok with this evaporation.

Hmm, just because someone is a monster doesn't mean that we have to become the same type of monsters, too imo. Or else the monsters pull us down to their own level and we'd lose the "moral high ground"/right to eventually judge and evaporate them.

[wagyl]

Get with the program, Gramps! We are the internet! We are required to be a baying mob of vigilantes!

[Russell]

Get with the program, Gramps! We are the internet! We are required to be a baying mob of vigilantes!

Taking the moral high ground, huh?

Well, it is preferable to have that vermin face justice, but that requires him to be captured alive. You want to risk soldiers' lives for that? Or are you personally gonna deliver him to the courts?!?

[wagyl]

Whatever, I'm not going to say that I'm looking forward to seeking a video of an execution, which is what you were saying.

Now that is dragging yourself down to his level. I think you are a better person than that.

[Wage Slave]

Yeah, fair enough Wags. It's not so much that I am looking forward to seeing the video. It's more that it would represent a kind of poetic justice for the obscene videos that he made and his organisation circulated. I certainly didn't want to see them but they were pretty much in our faces. Of course, the more commercially minded of the media organisations bear some of the blame but it was news and it was designed to be news, capture headlines and be seen very widely.

I just can't raise any moral hackles for this young man or Daesh. I'll grant I probably should, but I'm sorry I just can't.

[wagyl]

I do not see an easy solution, but I would like to maintain some humanity for myself. Some might say I do not have that luxury.

I do, however, think that brutality in reprisal only increases the radicalisation in others. A real nine-headed hydra.

[JAVGOD]

The next holocaust will be worldwide. Except wherever Nobile Energy execs live.

[kurogane]

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I do, however, think that brutality in reprisal only increases the radicalisation in others. A real nine-headed hydra.

Hard to disagree with that, but allowing that live capture was unlikely, and that the method used wasn't particularly brutal just decisive, it's great to hear he's dead, glad to hear he went out like the Big Poof he was in life, no need to enjoy the method used, or even the news itself. It's not like there's a shortage of these whackjobs, or their pandering handlers , and the media that celebrates them with a hand over their eyes in mock horror as they gleefully watch through their open fingers should be castigated most vigorously for being the scalliwags and strumpets they are.

Still, "he sort of just evaporated".............that is pretty F'in cool. Reminds me of the army reserve when we shot melons and pumpkins with a .50 cal machine gun. Except those poor gourds didn't do anything to deserve that.

[Russell]

I am confused.

In July:

Jihadi John 'on the run in Syria after becoming terrified ISIS chiefs have no use for him and will subject him to same fate as his victims'

Now:

ISIS supporters claim he is alive and wounded, 'lying in hospital in Raqqa'

Anyway:

Raffaello Pantucci, director of international security studies at the Royal United Services Institute, said if confirmed, Emwazi's death would make little strategic difference and could create a 'martyr culture' around him.

'It's more a symbolic strike, he said. 'Tactically it's not really going to change anything for the group.'

But Charlie Winter, a British academic from the Quilliam Foundation which focuses on ISIS activities, said it could be a 'big blow'.

'Symbolically it's really important. Jihadi John... was someone who was a source of hubris, a sort of an aspirational figure for fighters in Islamic State,' he said.

'He was a key figure of defiance in the face of the international coalition, so if in fact he has been killed, this is going to be a big blow.'

However, one of Emwazi's former neighbours in London today said he should have been captured, interrogated and made to face trial rather than being killed.

James Beker, 47, who lives above the Emwazi family in West Kilburn, west London, said the ISIS killer would have had vital information that could have kept Britain safe from attack.

The father-of-three said: 'I feel sorry he has been killed in this way. They should have put him on trial and interrogated him for information.

'They might have got information that we need for the safety of our country and find out why did he do that.

'They said he was intelligent so how did he turn evil? He turned into not really a beast but a monster.'

[Samurai_Jerk]

Encryption wars heating up in wake of terror attacks

It took nearly two weeks for French officials to piece together how a team of nine terrorists planned the deadly Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130. And during that time, intelligence officials filled the media vacuum with their own theories for what happened.

A Nov. 15 New York Times story (which was later silently pulled) said the attackers were “believed to have communicated using encryption technology, according to European officials who had been briefed on the investigation.” The following day, former CIA deputy director Michael Morell pointed to the secure communications tool — which jumbles messages so that they can be decoded only with a key — in connection with the attack. “We don’t know yet, but I think what we’re going to learn is that [the attackers] used these encryption apps, right?” he said on “CBS This Morning.” On Nov. 18, FBI Director James Comey reiterated his position that the bureau needs to access encrypted communications. Encryption, he said, permits “the needle [in the haystack] we’ve been searching the entire nation to find” to go “invisible.”

Although these comments may have been news to those searching for answers in the days following the attack, many encryption activists and experts felt as if they were experiencing déjà vu.

“In Internet years, this rhetoric is ancient at this point,” Nate Cardozo, a staff lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Yahoo News. “We’ve been hearing it since the mid-’90s.”

And, in the case of the Paris attacks, officials’ statements were also inaccurate. Aside from a few minor encrypted interactions, investigators found that the terrorists hatched their attack out in the open, booking online hotel reservations with their real names, exchanging Facebook messages and sending SMS texts on an unencrypted phone that police found discarded near one of the shooting sites.

But the issue is a long-standing one in the European and U.S. intelligence communities. Since the early ’90s, regulating encryption has been a contentious topic among technologists and government officials — a debate that is often renewed after major terrorist attacks. Government officials have insisted they need special access to encrypted networks to ensure terrorist communication does not slip by unnoticed. Technology companies, backed by activists and academics, have countered that doing so would irreparably compromise the security of our products and their economic viability.

[wagyl]

Aside from a few minor encrypted interactions, investigators found that the terrorists hatched their attack out in the open, booking online hotel reservations with their real names, exchanging Facebook messages and sending SMS texts on an unencrypted phone that police found discarded near one of the shooting sites.

Please please please make this a rationale for banning Faecesbook.

[Russell]

[Takechanpoo]

its the moment that the anecdote was promoted to a fact.
https://theintercept.com/2017/04/24/jap ... veillance/

[Buraku]

Drug Running Arms Dealing CI Gays are at it again? almost as crazy as those KGB

Your Cell Phone Is Spying on You
https://reason.com/2021/10/25/your-cell ... ng-on-you/

Theremin’s Bug: How The Soviet Union Spied On The US Embassy For 7 Years
https://hackaday.com/2015/12/08/theremins-bug/

Korean releases memoirs years after cleared of spying charges
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14383710

Japan-linked Korean ex death-row inmate acquitted of spying
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20 ... na/076000c

US schools gave kids laptops during the pandemic. Then they spied on them like peeping tom pedophile perverts... the excuse was it was all “For their own good”, of course?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ce-schools

Ex-U.S. employee arrested? Brian Jeffrey Raymond was arrested after reports of a “naked, hysterical woman desperately screaming for help” from the balcony
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex ... r-n1245054
What are 'The Finders'?

Brian Jeffrey Raymond, who has lived in D.C. and San Diego, while working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is now on the other side of the law after a naked woman was seen screaming for help from the balcony of his latest residence in Mexico City.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cia-s ... ng-guilty/
According to the FBI, Raymond, 45, pleaded guilty in July 2021 to two counts of sexual abuse, in which the victims were incapable of consent, and one count of transporting obscene material. Now, they are seeking more information after images of multiple victims were found on his devices.
The FBI began investigating Raymond in May of 2020 when a naked woman was seen screaming for help from his residence in Mexico City. According to authorities, the woman had no idea how she got to his home and claimed she had no memory after the pair ate dinner together.
When searching his devices, the FBI discovered hundreds of images and videos taken over the the course of 14 years from 2006 to 2020. This serial rapist had dozens of victims and all of them were unconscious during their rapes.

Serial Rapist CIA Agent Arrested After Naked Woman Seen Screaming for Help from Balcony

[Buraku]

Chinese hackers suspected of spying on US, European and Japanese targets
https://www.southwalesguardian.co.uk/ne ... e-targets/

Japan demands China release Astellas Pharma employee accused of spying
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65085546

Former CIA director John Brennan testifies about Hunter Biden laptop letter
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/former- ... 28034.html

'Too obscene to describe': More of Hunter Biden's 'antics' come to light

Julian Assange's wife says 'we're the closest we've ever been' to securing his release
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/jul ... /jz7t2ezfq

Why Edward Snowden should be pardoned
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/edward-snowd ... wer-pardon

Yes, Edward Snowden Is a Traitor
https://thediplomat.com/2013/12/yes-edw ... a-traitor/

Donald Trump to face trial in Stormy Daniels hush money case during Republican primaries
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ ... y-daniels/

Hoover's homosexual Goonsquad track down people who offended transexuals or abortionists?

they just want to 'Talk'

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