Jesus, NYT. Is it even <i>confirmed</i> that they couldn&#x27;t see what they were doing &quot;because they used encrypted apps&quot;, or is that just an <i>assumption</i> of &quot;anonymous officials&quot;?<p>Upon loading the post and reading the first paragraph:<p>&gt;  <i>American and French officials say there is still no definitive evidence to back up their presumption that the terrorists who massacred 129 people in Paris used new, difficult-to-crack encryption technologies to organize the plot.</i><p>Oh. Well there you go. I really don&#x27;t see the point of these media entities letting themselves <i>played</i> like this by the authorities to spread their false propaganda then. The bodies weren&#x27;t even cold yet and they started spreading this anti-encryption message on TV. Because they couldn&#x27;t have possibly admitted that maybe - just maybe - it&#x27;s the intelligence agencies that screwed up and they have to take responsibility for it, like it should happen in any democratic country, instead of pointing fingers at others. I wonder what they&#x27;ll say next if we discover these terrorists <i>weren&#x27;t</i> actually using encrypted channels to communicate.