@cazzie Given the conduct of some of my fellow online gamers, or more precisely what they get away with, it makes sense that ISIS would use something like XBox Live. I mean, talk about unmonitored channels!
On a related note, there is a lot of call for banning strong crypto in an attempt to monitor terrorist communications. Before any of you think about why that is anything other than bad and stupid and wrong, you might want to look into the effects that strong crypto has. The following people should oppose any and all measures at banning crypto include but are not limited to;
1) Anyone with a bank account, credit card, or other financial records (including taxpayers)
2) Anybody with a medical record
3) Anyone with any form of insurance
4) Anyone with a state-issued ID card
5) Anyone who is registered to vote
6) Anyone working in an industry that has any trade secrets
7) Anyone working a field that deals with information protected by privilege (i.e. lawyers, dentists, nurses…)
Just those groups alone cover a large enough percentage of the population that anything that threatens the security of their information the way allowing it to be read by anyone with a Radio Orphan Annie’s Secret Society decoder ring would could be said to affect practically everybody, even if they don’t realize it.
Now, how many of you are willing to take all of that information and put it up on Facebook? How many of you ware willing to let the entire world know about that “mysterious” charge on your credit card that you’ve been trying to hide from your spouse (even innocent ones like their Christmas gift)? What is your checking account number and password? How about some pics of that embarrassing rash you finally mustered the courage to talk to a doctor about? If you have even a fraction of a second hesitation to do all that and more, then you want strong crypto. And if you think that use losing the security it offers will deprive terrorists of it, then you don’t know the true origins of cryptography in the first place.