Hacking ISIS

[Fabbs]

why isn't more of it happening?

United States officials say they are ill equipped to thwart technologically savvy young Islamic State terrorists who use encrypted communications that Western experts find difficult to hack.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/as-isis-loses-land-it-gains-ground-in-overseas-terror/ar-AAi2obz?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

Do you believe the U.S. really lacks the know how to shut ISIS net activity down?

[boutons_deux]

why isn't more of it happening?

United States officials say they are ill equipped to thwart technologically savvy young Islamic State terrorists who use encrypted communications that Western experts find difficult to hack.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/as-isis-loses-land-it-gains-ground-in-overseas-terror/ar-AAi2obz?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

Do you believe the U.S. really lacks the know how to shut ISIS net activity down?

First, US govt has to repeal effectively the 4th Amendment so Americans can be spied on anywhere, all the time, without warrants.

[SpursforSix]

why isn't more of it happening?

United States officials say they are ill equipped to thwart technologically savvy young Islamic State terrorists who use encrypted communications that Western experts find difficult to hack.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/as-isis-loses-land-it-gains-ground-in-overseas-terror/ar-AAi2obz?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

Do you believe the U.S. really lacks the know how to shut ISIS net activity down?

I think all the U.S. talent is tied up playing Rocket League.

[TDMVPDPOY]

can hack into iphone, yet cant hack isis ?

[Fabbs]

First, US govt has to repeal effectively the 4th Amendment so Americans can be spied on anywhere, all the time, without warrants.
I thought they were already spying on everyone everywhere.

So does the U.S. have the talent to force UnIsIs to shut it?

[boutons_deux]

I thought they were already spying on everyone everywhere.

So does the U.S. have the talent to force UnIsIs to shut it?

they are. You must have missed the recent FBI/CIA request to Congress to remove warrants for even more expanded snooping.

They ain't done, yet, they ain't stopping, and they're unstoppable.

[DMX7]

can hack into iphone, yet cant hack isis ?

Didn't the gov end up paying a private third-party to do the hacking?

[boutons_deux]

Didn't the gov end up paying a private third-party to do the hacking?

govt pays mercenaries to operate drones that kill 100s of non-combattants.

[DMX7]

govt pays mercenaries to operate drones that kill 100s of non-combattants.

I didn't ask that.

[boutons_deux]

I didn't ask that.

govt pays LOTS of for-profit people for LOTS of stuff.

[DMX7]

govt pays LOTS of for-profit people for LOTS of stuff.

I understand that.

[MultiTroll]

ISIS tightens grip on Yazidi captives held as sex slaves

Todays news has ISIS maiming, buying and selling chicks and their control over the abused women and girls is getting worse, not better.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/07...tcmp=obnetwork (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/07/06/isis-tightens-grip-on-yazidi-captives-held-as-sex-slaves.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&intcmp=obnetwork)

IS relies on encrypted apps to sell the women and girls, according to an activist is documenting the transactions and asked not to be named for fear of his safety.
The activist showed AP the negotiations for the captives in encrypted conversations as they were occurring in real time.

[ElNono]

IS relies on encrypted apps to sell the women and girls, according to an activist is documenting the transactions and asked not to be named for fear of his safety.
The activist showed AP the negotiations for the captives in encrypted conversations as they were occurring in real time.

What's with the bolded? It's not like encryption hasn't been widely used for the past 30+ years or something.

[SquawkinHawkBigCock]

Anonymous and other hacker groups do hack ISIS regularly put Murican Govt. can;t :lol

:lol Today's Cyber Division

[MultiTroll]

What's with the bolded? It's not like encryption hasn't been widely used for the past 30+ years or something.
Is todays encrypted so difficult to hack that between US. Guvmnt and Anonymous no one can shut down this ISIS chit?

[ElNono]

Is todays encrypted so difficult to hack that between US. Guvmnt and Anonymous no one can shut down this ISIS chit?

Properly written encryption is unbreakable (at least until somebody comes up with working Quantum computers, then again there's quantum-safe encryption already available).

Encryption isn't a magical thing, it's built on well known mathematical problems that are hard to solve without the right variables (and with current equipment). The algorithms are far from secret, that's what makes encryption secure, the fact that everybody knows how it works, can write their own encryption engine, and still can't break it.

In this day and age, it's likely easier to tap/hack one of the ends that decrypts the communication and spy from there.

[CosmicCowboy]

Properly written encryption is unbreakable (at least until somebody comes up with working Quantum computers, then again there's quantum-safe encryption already available).

Encryption isn't a magical thing, it's built on well known mathematical problems that are hard to solve without the right variables (and with current equipment). The algorithms are far from secret, that's what makes encryption secure, the fact that everybody knows how it works, can write their own encryption engine, and still can't break it.

In this day and age, it's likely easier to tap/hack one of the ends that decrypts the communication and spy from there.

Good to know. Thanks for the common sense explanation.

[MultiTroll]

Properly written encryption is unbreakable.
Pure speculation: From which countrie(s) do you think ISIS Phucktard Nation has gotten it's computer talent from?
Probably more like who have they hired. I don't think their computer people are full on ISIS tards but.....

[boutons_deux]

The ISIS territorial caliphate is just about destroyed. But I'm sure Repugs will continue LYING that Obama has been weak on terrorism.

[boutons_deux]

Inside ISIS: Quietly preparing for the loss of the ‘caliphate’

Even as it launches waves of terrorist attacks around the globe, the Islamic State is quietly preparing its followers for the eventual collapse of the caliphate it proclaimed with great fanfare two years ago.

In public messages and in recent actions in Syria, the group’s leaders are acknowledging the terrorist organization’s declining fortunes on the battlefield while bracing for the possibility that its remaining strongholds could fall.

At the same time, the group is vowing to press on with its recent campaign of violence, even if the terrorists themselves are driven underground. U.S. counterterrorism experts believe the mass-*casualty attacks in Istanbul and Baghdad (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/death-toll-climbs-to-187-in-islamic-states-worst-ever-bomb-attack/2016/07/04/6964d2b2-41ce-11e6-bc99-7d269f8719b1_story.html) in the past month were largely a response to military reversals in Iraq and Syria.
Such terrorist acts are likely to continue and even intensify, at least initially, analysts say, as the group evolves from a quasi-state with territorial holdings to a shadowy and diffuse network with branches and cells on at least three continents.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inside-isis-quietly-preparing-for-the-loss-of-the-caliphate/2016/07/12/9a1a8a02-454b-11e6-8856-f26de2537a9d_story.html?wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1