This Wall Street Journal article gets the title wrong: “Paris Attacks Plot Was Hatched in Plain Sight”. What is described in the article is execution of the plan, which was done in the clear. We still do not know how the plan was plotted or what communications existed between ISIS and the European based attackers. […]
Signals, Intelligence
Signal, by Open Whisper Systems, is the gold standard for secure instant messengers. It uses the well reviewed axolotl ratchet, an improved and modernized version of Off The Record, itself is a much studied protocol. The axolotl ratchet is the absolute best crypto messaging protocol publicly available. Open Whisper Systems is a privacy centric company […]
Operational Telegram
Telegram, the encrypted messaging app loved by terrorists, has been in the news lately. Terrorists have long used existing commercial and public communications infrastructure to send commands and plan operations. This is nothing new. What is causing so much distress is that Telegram provides a secret chat feature that is end to end encrypted. Encryption, […]