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Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 20 Mar 2016
Edward Snowden Retweeted emptywheel

"The Wire" (2002) is helping the terrorists. David Simon wanted for questioning.https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/711532353684938752 …

Edward Snowden added,

emptywheel @emptywheel

Article suggests ISIS far more reliant on burner phones than encryption. You know, OpSec technique widely in use well before @Snowden.

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David Simon ‏@AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
@Snowden Of course that is a credible tactical argument to get metadata ASAP, so as to isolate burner before discard. Just saying.

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Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 20 Mar 2016
@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.

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David Simon ‏@AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
@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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Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 20 Mar 2016
@AoDespair Fair point. My background is in intelligence, not law enforcement. Transnational terrorists aren't hurting for burners.

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