Jihadist tech magazine shows would-be terrorists how to avoid surveillance

Magazine advises using open source—or scraps of paper—for anything important.

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[Exit20]

When is the paper industry going to stop supporting terrorists and put some backdoors for the good guys in their product?

 

[helel ben shachar]

Instead, the article recommends writing such messages down on paper, and burning them as soon as they have been read. Really.

It seems that this practice is being made fun of a bit, but this is not without precedent. Being intentionally vague here, I once regularly handled secret information that by necessity was in paper format. Once the information was utilized the paper was placed in a Folgers Coffee can (no joke) under the watchful eyes of two offices, lit of fire until only ashes were left, and said ashes dumped onto the ground and ground into the dust.

There was absolutely no reconstructing that information.

 

[scoobie]

If you scrub away the Islamist-Twitter angle you are left with the age old establishment problem of how you deal with publications like the good old "Anarchists' Cookbook" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7030096.stm That was Terrorism Act 2000. Don't even try and Google it in the UK, people..... Life's too short.

 

[AndreaFaulds]

Exit20[/url]":i1v3kggg]When is the paper industry going to stop supporting terrorists and put some backdoors for the good guys in their product?

You jest, but laser printers actually add tiny little yellow tracking dots to every page they print.

 

[AndreaFaulds]

cdclndc[/url]":2gyqj0wb]

Instead, the article recommends writing such messages down on paper, and burning them as soon as they have been read. Really.

It seems that this practice is being made fun of a bit, but this is not without precedent. Being intentionally vague here, I once regularly handled secret information that by necessity was in paper format. Once the information was utilized the paper was placed in a Folgers Coffee can (no joke) under the watchful eyes of two offices, lit of fire until only ashes were left, and said ashes dumped onto the ground and ground into the dust.

There was absolutely no reconstructing that information.

People mock paper, but the US government can't backdoor it, and you know only the person you've given it to has it. You can hide it in all sorts of places, too. So long as LE don't break down your door, you're fine. Even then, they might not find it.

 

[Akemi]

Instead, the article recommends writing such messages down on paper, and burning them as soon as they have been read.

Clearly the answer from the US and UK is that we need to ban paper and all writing utensils - STAT!

 

[mmnw]

Akemi[/url]":1jz6i2qz]

Instead, the article recommends writing such messages down on paper, and burning them as soon as they have been read.

Clearly the answer from the US and UK is that we need to ban paper and all writing utensils - STAT!

I'm arguing for that since first grade, but no one was listening to me.
I had to learn writing by hand anyway ...

 

[sheepless]

AndreaFaulds[/url]":1ux74d24]

Exit20[/url]":1ux74d24]When is the paper industry going to stop supporting terrorists and put some backdoors for the good guys in their product?

You jest, but laser printers actually add tiny little yellow tracking dots to every page they print.

I'd like to see a monochrome laser printer do that!

 

[TheShark]

sheepless[/url]":z8wki71l]

AndreaFaulds[/url]":z8wki71l]

Exit20[/url]":z8wki71l]When is the paper industry going to stop supporting terrorists and put some backdoors for the good guys in their product?

You jest, but laser printers actually add tiny little yellow tracking dots to every page they print.

I'd like to see a monochrome laser printer do that!

It can't of course. It also can't print anything resembling counterfeit money which is the ostensible reason for the tracking dots in (some? all?) color printers.

 

[TheShark]

Exit20[/url]":5g3exfpt]When is the paper industry going to stop supporting terrorists and put some backdoors for the good guys in their product?

Not to mention it's ability to inflict the dreaded 'paper cut'. Clearly it's a munition which needs to fall under strict export control guidelines.

 

[david newall]

AndreaFaulds[/url]":1u7ntvir]

Exit20[/url]":1u7ntvir]When is the paper industry going to stop supporting terrorists and put some backdoors for the good guys in their product?

You jest, but laser printers actually add tiny little yellow tracking dots to every page they print.

Colour laser printers. Presumably trimming the top off printouts would constitute reasonable suspicion.

 

[david newall]

TheShark[/url]":3gr1youx]

sheepless[/url]":3gr1youx]

AndreaFaulds[/url]":3gr1youx]

Exit20[/url]":3gr1youx]When is the paper industry going to stop supporting terrorists and put some backdoors for the good guys in their product?

You jest, but laser printers actually add tiny little yellow tracking dots to every page they print.

I'd like to see a monochrome laser printer do that!

It can't of course. It also can't print anything resembling counterfeit money which is the ostensible reason for the tracking dots in (some? all?) color printers.

The dots are at the top of the page. I guess the most commonly counterfeited money is in A4 or US Letter denominations.

 

[scoobie]

AndreaFaulds[/url]":2s0ean6n]
People mock paper, but the US government can't backdoor it, and you know only the person you've given it to has it. You can hide it in all sorts of places, too. So long as LE don't break down your door, you're fine. Even then, they might not find it.

Russian Security Agency Orders Electric Typewriters

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... leaks.html