On Friday 13 November 2015 Paris was targeted by a massive terrorist attack by members of the Islamic State (ISIS). Since the incident, government officials have begun to exploit it by launching a campaign to promote mass surveillance laws.
It certainly didn't help that the Belgian Interior Minister's statement revealing that ISIS members could be using its built-in chat system PlayStation 4 για να συντονίσουν τις επιθέσεις. Το συγκεκριμένο σύστημα έχει μπει στο eye authorities since an Austrian teenager used it to download plans for a bomb last June.
So now, while law enforcement agencies are trying to find out how attacks have taken place in Paris, government executives on the other hand use them as a pretext for promoting a propaganda that poses the need for increased monitoring of online sites.
The first is currently running in the middle informationof the United Kingdom, and is called “Snooper's Chart” and supports the law that is up for approval. It is a flawed law full of loopholes and contradictions that has been pending for many months.
UK authorities are now trying to seize the opportunity to take advantage of the Paris disaster to pass a bill that would force all UK phone companies to store browsing history on Internet of all their customers for at least one year.
The same applies to the US where the dysentery began to grow and through reliable news sites, with high-ranking US officials to warn citizens that the presence of online encryption can put everyone at risk.
So in the next few days we will have to wait for government officials to attack or crack, starting with DarkWeb, any kind of reliable encryption, ending with Bitcoin.
But as thinkers, we need to know that where there is will there is the way. If ISIS wants to destroy Europe with terrorist attacks, it will do so irrespective of the means of communication it uses, encrypted online messages or pigeons.
