Edward Snowden
"The Wire" (2002) is helping the terrorists. David Simon wanted for questioning.https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/711532353684938752 …
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@AoDespair Not really. Phones used in real-world ops are disposed on a per-action, or per-call basis. Lifetimes of minutes, hours. Not days.
David Simon
@Snowden Can't speak to shelf-life of disposible phone in Pakistan. In Baltimore, discipline and cost are such that it can be days.
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@AoDespair Fair point. My background is in intelligence, not law enforcement. Transnational terrorists aren't hurting for burners. -
@Snowden Neither should top-end drug traffickers in the more affluent US. And yet by the time the process trickles to the corner boys.... -
@AoDespair Tbf, mass surveillance wasn't pitched to catch "corner boys" or even "The Greek," but on thwarting OBLs. And there, never worked. -
@AoDespair Commercial activities (drug sales) will always generate records that sporadic offensive operations (terrorism) will not. -
@AoDespair Communications needs between the groups differ, therefore M.O.s differ. This is why IC is with Apple in @AppleVsFBI.
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@AoDespair@Snowden Just wanted to clarify, Pakistan does not have burner phones. Every sim needs to be associated with a registered citizen -
@AoDespair@Snowden Was this a trial run of collaboration and possibly of things to come? # Beauty -
@AoDespair@Snowden disposable phones are pretty cheap in Pakistan. Probably cheap enough for terrorists to discard right away
Saad Ghauri
Winifred
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