New York Times pulls Paris encryption story

Stefan Mileschin · 20th November 2015, 09:30

For a while now the New York Times has blotted its street cred by printing Apple adverts pretending they are news, but it appeared that when it did the same thing for government spooks, it got out of its depth rather fast.

Earlier this week it ran a story which claimed that the Paris attackers were able to get away with their diabolical deeds because they used encrypted communications which the government could not spy on.

The story was straight from the hymn book that government spooks and their right-wing government cronies have been chanting from for ages. Namely that to protect people from terrorists, government spooks need encryption keys.

However there was one problem with the story – it was untrue.

On Sunday, the Times published a story citing unidentified “European officials” who told the outlet the attackers coordinated their assault on the French capital via unspecified “encryption technology.”

http://www.techeye.net/news/new-york...cryption-story

20th November 2015, 09:30	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,462	New York Times pulls Paris encryption story For a while now the New York Times has blotted its street cred by printing Apple adverts pretending they are news, but it appeared that when it did the same thing for government spooks, it got out of its depth rather fast. Earlier this week it ran a story which claimed that the Paris attackers were able to get away with their diabolical deeds because they used encrypted communications which the government could not spy on. The story was straight from the hymn book that government spooks and their right-wing government cronies have been chanting from for ages. Namely that to protect people from terrorists, government spooks need encryption keys. However there was one problem with the story – it was untrue. On Sunday, the Times published a story citing unidentified “European officials” who told the outlet the attackers coordinated their assault on the French capital via unspecified “encryption technology.” http://www.techeye.net/news/new-york...cryption-story

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