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Jihadi terrorists DIDN'T encrypt their comms 'cos of Snowden leaks

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I'm with Brucey on this one

Cryptography is hard, and the odds that a home-brew encryption product is better than a well-studied open-source tool is slight. Last fall, Matt Blaze said to me that he thought that the Snowden documents will usher in a new dark age of cryptography, as people abandon good algorithms and software for snake oil of their own devising. My guess is that this an example of that.

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