ISIL/ISIS/Daesh says no need for encryption -- but Telegram caves to pressure
ISIS use of Telegram is the latest bogeyman in the security services' breathless demonization of encryption. But it turns out the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant -- some prefer to call it Daesh -- used barely-encrypted SMS to communicate in Paris and Belgium.
But the Telegram app has nuked "78 ISIS-related channels across 12 languages." See? See? End-to-end encryption helps terrorists!
Err, except Telegram isn't end-to-end encrypted. Idiots.
And it gets worse. Telegram closing these IS-themed Channels has probably blocked a valuable source of intelligence.
In IT Blogwatch, bloggers are mad as heck. And they're not gonna take it any more... Not to mention: 'ISIS Is Weak'...
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