the sad part is that this is the only actual quote I could find, all the rest is just speculation and security theater<p>&quot;The working assumption is that these guys were very security aware, and they assumed they would be under some level of observation, and acted accordingly&quot;<p>and the ps4 quote about encryption is completely unrelated:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xpats.com&#x2F;brussels-weakest-link-europes-fight-against-terrorism" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xpats.com&#x2F;brussels-weakest-link-europes-fight-aga...</a><p>just think about it: if problem was just the encryption, the logical assumption is that they were aware of the person involved but couldn&#x27;t read the messages<p>you have to find the person you need to monitor first, encryption or not. you can&#x27;t track every message, even if you force the whole word to communicate without encryption, because of the sheer amount of false positives.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schneier.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2006&#x2F;03&#x2F;data_mining_for.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schneier.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2006&#x2F;03&#x2F;data_mining_f...</a>