For you technology experts. Total B.S., or could the article be on to something?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/11/14/why-the-paris-isis-terrorists-used-ps4-to-plan-attacks/

Sure it's possible.  It's just a means of communication.  They could use a tin can and string or smoke signals too.

Hmm... takes me back "One if by Land, Two if by Sea"

Quote from: walkstall on November 15, 2015, 07:00:06 PM
Hmm... takes me back "One if by Land, Two if by Sea"

I just found this one.

QuoteNervous flyers probably shouldn't read this – Orly airport in France recently saw dozens of flights grounded, and admitted that the problem stemmed from the fact that air traffic controllers were using Windows 3.1.

For the unininitiated, Windows 3.1 is from the early Nineties and – you'd think – barely capable of running a cash machine, let alone an air traffic control system.

The delays began on Saturday November after the system broke down – and the secretary general of a French air traffic controller union said the problem was with air-traffic software running on Windows 3.1.

'The issue with a system that old is that people don't like to do maintenance work,' Alexandre Fiacre, secretary general of the UNSA-IESSA air traffic controller union, told Vice.

'Furthermore, we are starting to lose the expertise [to deal] with that type of operating system. In Paris, we have only three specialists who can deal with DECOR-related issues.'

http://metro.co.uk/2015/11/16/flight-chaos-as-airport-admits-its-air-traffic-control-pcs-still-run-windows-3-1-5505950/

What are their military using? 

Quote from: MACMan on November 14, 2015, 06:07:29 PM
For you technology experts. Total B.S., or could the article be on to something?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/11/14/why-the-paris-isis-terrorists-used-ps4-to-plan-attacks/

If there is a will, a way will be found.

So, let's say you want to communicate with a bunch of people, something that's secret.

a.  Do it in a medium that is overwhelmed with data, keep the rhetoric to a minimum and replace "trigger words" with something else, tailor the language to something BORING - I'll get ignored, and there is no need to encrypt.

b.  Encrypt the real message into something so common, it's ignored, like pictures, music, static...

Assuming the recruitment has already been done, it's privacy over a public media would be preferred.
But there are some really fancy, high tech ways to communicate, none of which make sense if you just want to blow yourself up.


Why do these guys recruit people for suicide missions, and then run and hide like rabbits?   Do the recruits ever wonder why the recruiters don't lead by example...?   Since there are millions more people on the-other-side ... where is the long term value in killing off your own recruits?   Are they expecting the unconverted to willingly go into Islamic slavery?  It is not surprising to hear drugs are involved, suicide bombers die "high".   a one-way-ticket-to-hell.

Quote from: Hoofer on November 19, 2015, 06:03:02 PM

Why do these guys recruit people for suicide missions, and then run and hide like rabbits?   Do the recruits ever wonder why the recruiters don't lead by example...?   Since there are millions more people on the-other-side ... where is the long term value in killing off your own recruits?   Are they expecting the unconverted to willingly go into Islamic slavery?  It is not surprising to hear drugs are involved, suicide bombers die "high".   a one-way-ticket-to-hell.

What shows up the next day in the news...?
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/620822/The-ISIS-Drug-Fiends-Homemade-cocaine-fuelling-jihadis-and-triggering-psychosis

Germans did it in WW2 to keep their troops marching for 36hrs, and then fight like they were fresh off a pot of coffee....

Quote from: Hoofer on November 20, 2015, 04:36:59 PM
What shows up the next day in the news...?
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/620822/The-ISIS-Drug-Fiends-Homemade-cocaine-fuelling-jihadis-and-triggering-psychosis

Germans did it in WW2 to keep their troops marching for 36hrs, and then fight like they were fresh off a pot of coffee....

I thought these Islamists were supposed to be pure.  No drinking, no smoking etc.

The girl who blew herself up in Paris was a party girl with nude pics on facebook.  The so called mastermind who planned the whole thing, was seen the day after, drinking hard liquor right out of the bottle and smoking pot.   

Quote from: Dori on November 20, 2015, 05:27:33 PM
I thought these Islamists were supposed to be pure.  No drinking, no smoking etc.

The girl who blew herself up in Paris was a party girl with nude pics on facebook.  The so called mastermind who planned the whole thing, was seen the day after, drinking hard liquor right out of the bottle and smoking pot.   

It's like liberalism, it's always for ye, and not thee.

Maybe they should ban PS4's as WMD's.

Quote from: Dori on November 20, 2015, 05:27:33 PM
I thought these Islamists were supposed to be pure.  No drinking, no smoking etc.

The girl who blew herself up in Paris was a party girl with nude pics on facebook.  The so called mastermind who planned the whole thing, was seen the day after, drinking hard liquor right out of the bottle and smoking pot.   

Yup, right up to the time they commit to kill themselves.   I've read they will do the foulest kinds of debauchery a week or so before they self-detonate... if that doesn't tell us where their mind is (Matthew 5 coming to mind, "if you think it, you're as guilty of actually doing it")...

There are other people that do the same, before they take-their-vows, engage in all kinds of vile debauchery.   It is just the nature of mankind, unless the heart is regenerated, even the greatest work of righteousness is filthy in God's sight.