In an opinion piece for The Telegraph newspaper, William Hague, the Conservative former Foreign Secretary in the UK, says the latest Brussels terrorist attacks shows the need to crack terrorist communications. Pointing out the terrorists communication of choice, “mobile phones” which “had evidently not been used before and showed no record of texts, chat or emails,” had led him to claim that their chosen method of communication had been “sufficiently private or encrypted that the authorities do not seem to have been aware of it.” Blaming Edward Snowden who in 2013 brought to light allegations of extensive surveillance by western intelligence agencies for the internet “going dark”, Hague who, as Foreign Secretary, was responsible for MI6, said that “every mastermind of terrorism or organised crime has been alerted to the need to change or disguise their means of communication.”
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine
