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Well what we have seen in actual practice is in France and other terror attacks that they used no encryption so far. http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-18/a-back-door...

What we have also seen in regards to just use of technology is the reign of default. I I doubt that criminals would go for an unlocked iPhone for security reasons for a few reason but one being that is beyond them.

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Considering that ISIS has a website[1] protected by TOR, I'm pretty sure they could figure out how to jail break an iPhone, which takes about 10 minutes and a YouTube tutorial.

I apologize, if I'm wrong, but I can't help but feel like you're being disingenuous.

1. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/isis-now-has-a-propaganda-s...

Though there is a tor website is does it actually get visited by people? Seems like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Telegram has been more successful for them.

ISIS is known to use encryption in their communications.

I specifically spoke about the attacks in Paris which was originally blamed on Snowden and encryption but actually they didn't use encrypted communication.

Do they? Do you have evidence to back that up?

The bits I've read suggest that they don't - or at least not widely.

Eg: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/paris_terrori...

http://www.businessinsider.com/telegram-isis-app-encrypted-p...

There's only one mention of ISIS affiliated chat channels on Telegram, not that it's actually been used by actual terrorists.

The rest of the speculation in that article was called out and refuted by the link I supplied.

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