Wheedling about crypto and Snowden diverts from
CIA Director's full speech and broader critique. CIA version omits Q&A.
<https://t.co/d6tAq2PiZi>http://csis.org/files/attachments/151116_GSF_OpeningSession.pdf
To be sure, commentators must promote their
products to flatter their consumers as do spies, officials and
armaments (crypto) producers.
Officials buy the armaments to gain votes and
post-service directorships, word artists blow wind to fan the flames.
"This Is War!" Perfect for all consumers except
the slaughtered, a few of which get ritual
mourning (most ignored, unreported, unsacrelized, unheroricized, unencrypted).
Hard to tell the difference between opportunistic
warmongerers or anti-warmongerers, so ying and yang in complicity.
At 10:03 AM 11/17/2015, you wrote:
1.
<https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/paris_attacks_b.html>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/paris_attacks_b.html
2.
https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/
<<As Paris reels from terrorist attacks that
have claimed at least 128 lives, fierce blame
for the carnage is being directed toward
American whistleblower Edward Snowden and the
spread of strong encryption catalyzed by his
actions. Now the Paris attacks are being used an excuse to demand back doors>>
<<how can âofficialsâ and their media
stenographers persist in trying to convince
people of such a blatant, easily disproven
falsehood: namely, that Terrorists learned to
hide their communications from Snowdenâs
revelations? They do it because of how many
benefits there are from swindling people to
believe this. To begin with, U.S officials are
eager here to demonize far more than just Snowden
They want to demonize encryption generally as
well as any companies that offer it. Indeed, as
these media accounts show, theyâve been trying
for two decades to equate the use of encryption
anything that keeps them out of peopleâs
private onlinee communications with aiding and abetting The Terrorists>>
<<Above all, thereâs the desperation to
prevent people from asking how and why ISIS was
able to spring up seemingly out of nowhere and
be so powerful, able to blow up a Russian
passenger plane, a market in Beirut, and the
streets of Paris in a single week. Thatâs the
one question Western officials are most
desperate not to be asked, so directing
peopleâs ire to Edward Snowden and strong
encryption is beneficial in the extreme>>
<<Thereâs the related question of how ISIS has
become so well-armed and powerful. There are
many causes, but a leading one is the role
played by the U.S. and its âallies in the
regionâ (i.e., Gulf tyrannies) in arming them>>
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