Finding Low-Tech Solutions for High-Tech Terrorism

Encryption will become ever harder to crack and will only be more widely used in years to come, resulting in more and larger digital “black holes,” or safe spaces where terrorists and criminals can communicate and store data. When authorities' ability to monitor the communications of terrorist suspects is limited, they are deprived of important information streams that they typically use to conduct threat assessments and counterterrorism investigations. However, the age of encryption is not a fatal blow to counterterrorism efforts, and as long as authorities continue to utilize valuable low-tech intelligence methods, they will be able to adjust to this new reality....