Hadaddi was using “WhatsApp” ¹ or “Telegram and SMS” ² to message Abu Ahmad’s phone. ___ ¹ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-europes-migrant-crisis-became-an-opportunity-for-isis/2016/04/21/ec8a7231-062d-4185-bb27-cc7295d35415_story.html … ²http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/world/middleeast/isis-german-recruit-interview.html …
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Every single one of those messaging platforms uses mobile phone numbers as identifiers. Haddadi’s connection to Abu Ahmad was linked (cont)
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Haddadi’s comms w/ an ISIS lieutenant, on a number directly linked to the Paris attacks, was avail from: - Facebook - Telegram - EU Telcos
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Every single one of those companies has the metadata, and cooperates with legal requests for data (eg search warrants.)
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Hadaddi was caught, not via easily available and thoroughly damning SIGINT, but via dept of immigration facial recognition systems.
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Are smartphone messenger systems a problem for the intelligence services? Clearly they are. The services aren’t using the available metadata
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An ISIS operative was hiding in Europe for a month, in contact with ISIS, at an ISIS phone number directly linked to the Paris attacks.
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Want to talk about “encrypted messengers protect terrorists,” explain why the Services failed to catch Haddadi via metadata. For a month.
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At some point someone needs to ask Intel services why their bulk metadata collection doesn't deliver as promised.
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everything is easier with hindsight, The expression " needle haystack" comes to mind
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