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I don't know why people are considering these terrorists to be so smart. They arrived at the Stade de France and were naively thinking they'd be able to come inside with explosives tied to them. In January, they didn't even know where the Charlie Hebdo meeting room was, they had to ask for directions and were even sent the wrong way (at first). Really, I'm far from worrying about their communication's encryption as much as I worry about the lax government.

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> as much as I worry about the lax government

You mean the same governments that are already collecting everyone's private communications and swabbing babies for bomb residue at airports under the guise of stopping these types of things? It's not a lack of effort or resources that should be concerning, it's the sheer incompetence.

No, the point I was trying to make has nothing to do with communication. Molenbeek has been known to host radicalized Islamists for twenty years, I've heard on French TV this weekend. Encrypted communication or not, as long as governments sleep on such facts, we will see further attacks.

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