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EW Europe: App encryption threatens surveillance

10th May 2016 - 15:19 GMT | by Tim Fish in Rotterdam

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The increasing use of commercial products such as the internet and smartphones by terrorist organisations to carry out their operations presents a new challenge to the military electronic warfare community.

The encryption available to users of such products is easy to get, accessible and free, a defence official told a workshop at the EW Europe exhibition in Rotterdam.

Extremist organisations are effectively using commercial tools such as YouTube and Facebook and other social network and online propaganda magazines to further their cause and get recruits.

He cited in particular the app downloads available on smartphones that cannot be intercepted while

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Tim Fish is a special correspondent for Shephard Media. Formerly the editor of Land Warfare …

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