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> Investigators say two such services, WhatsApp and Telegram, were used by terrorists in the Paris attacks last November

I thought they communicated using burner phones and not encryption [1].

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/paris-terrorist-a...

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It hardly matters. These liars are going to find some tenuous link between terrarism and the encryptions and scream about it at the top of their lungs.

ps -- remember the san bernardino attacks? The attackers destroyed their personal cells and left a work cell behind. It's pretty obvious there never was anything on it. And had the fbi found anything germane, they would have trumpeted it.

CNN and the Washington Post both reported that WhatsApp and Telegram were found on several of the Paris attackers' phones, but that the content wasn't able to be recovered.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/17/politics/paris-attacks-terrori...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/paris-attack-pla...

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