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November 17, 2015 04:00 pm

NYT Quietly Pulls Article Blaming Encryption In Paris Attacks

HughPickens.com writes: Inside Sources reports that the New York Times has quietly pulled a story from its website alleging the attackers used encrypted technology. The original piece which has since been removed, can be found on the Internet Archive and stated. "The attackers are believed to have communicated using encryption technology, according to European officials who had been briefed on the investigation but were not authorized to speak publicly. It was not clear whether the encryption was part of widely used communications tools, like WhatsApp, which the authorities have a hard time monitoring, or something more elaborate. Intelligence officials have been pressing for more leeway to counter the growing use of encryption." A link to the NYT article now redirects readers to a separate, general article on the attacks, which does not contain the word "encrypt." The Times later posted a second article citing an anonymous "European counterterrorism official" who was quoted saying authorities' "working assumption is that these guys were very security aware," but clarified officials "offered no evidence." "European officials said they believed the Paris attackers had used some kind of encrypted communication, but offered no evidence," the article reads. "'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,' said a senior European counterterrorism official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential information."

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