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The Demonization of Encryption shown to hold little water in the Paris case
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wraith808:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151118/08474732854/after-endless-demonization-encryption-police-find-paris-attackers-coordinated-via-unencrypted-sms.shtml
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/paris_terrorist.html
TL;DR - The Paris terrorists communicated in the clear. It was how they were stopped in Belgium, and could have been stopped in Paris.
Follow up on Ars: http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/paris-police-find-phone-with-unencrypted-sms-saying-lets-go-were-starting/
The significance of this? It's in direct contradiction to the earlier reports:
http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/11/isis-encrypted-communications-with-paris-attackers-french-officials-say/
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