Showing posts with label disclosure of stolen GCHQ files. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

How Snowden Has Sabotaged Spies Keeping Track On Terror: Fanatics Using Sophisticated Data Encryption To Avoid Detection After Learning About Techniques In Leaked Files


Ian Drury at the British newspaper the Daily Mail reports on the damage caused to British security by American spy and traitor Edward Snowden.

US traitor Edward Snowden has undermined British security by making it much harder for UK spies to fight terrorists, a report warns today.

Intelligence chiefs are increasingly concerned that they are struggling to track extremists, including those from Islamic State, after the fugitive leaked files stolen from GCHQ and the US National Security Agency.

Fanatics and organised crime gangs are using sophisticated new data encryption programmes to avoid detection after learning about spy agencies’ techniques, an independent surveillance review by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think-tank concluded.

Snowden’s disclosure of up to 1.7million classified files presented a ‘significant challenge’ to the authorities tasked with electronically tracking targets who ‘pose a risk to collective security’, experts found.

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