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by BWStearns 4713 days ago
There's also another layer to this: The terrorists that actually exist are not 10 feet tall and not all geniuses. If I told some of my non-technologically oriented friends how to encrypt and anonymize their communications, they couldn't do it. If I went one step further and configured their computers and explained to them how to use it, they would probably still leak information by misusing it.

Are the terrorists changing their tactics? Probably. Is it going to do them any good? Unlikely.