The article gives the same blame of its the fault of Snowden and the tech industry for Paris. Not the fact the French ignored red flag warnings just like our
President Shrub did for 9/11.
There were multiple chances to stop the men who attacked Paris.
In January, Turkish authorities detained one of the suicide bombers at Turkey's border and deported him to Belgium. Brahim Abdeslam, Turkish authorities told Belgian police at the time, had been "radicalized" and was suspected of wanting to join Islamic State in Syria, a Turkish security source told Reuters.
Yet during questioning in Belgium, Abdeslam denied any involvement with militants and was set free. So was his brother Salah - a decision that Belgian authorities say was based on scant evidence that either man had terrorist intentions.
On Nov. 13, Abdeslam blew himself up at Le Comptoir Voltaire bar in Paris, killing himself and wounding one other. Salah is also a suspect in the attacks, claimed by the Islamic State, and is now on the run.
In France, an "S" (State Security) file for people suspected of being a threat to national security had been issued on Ismail Omar Mostefai, who would detonate his explosive vest inside Paris' Bataclan concert hall. Mostefai, a Frenchman of Algerian descent, was placed on the list in 2010, French police sources say.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aut ... 8edb31d9c2
The idea that the tech industry should leave encryption more open with back doors for government agencies to use is bunk. The same back doors that can be used by government can also be used by others for more nefarious uses like accessing your bank account or trade secrets from your company, confidential correspondence between you and your lawyer, or even your love letters that you don't want anybody to see.
The revelations that Snowden revealed has shown just how far our government will disregard the rights of its own citizens that are guaranteed in the Constitution. They are told no more massive sweeps and gathering of all phone records. But they just change how they do it.
The National Security Agency (NSA) secretly replaced its program monitoring Americans' emails and moved it overseas before the operation was exposed by Edward Snowden in 2013, according to new reporting.
NSA officials responded to Snowden's leaks by stating that the email records program had shut down in 2011—and in a way, it had. But newly released documents show the agency had simply created a "functional equivalent" that analyzed Americans' emails without collecting bulk data from U.S. telecommunications companies, the New York Times reported on Friday.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/1 ... -it-better
There are other ways to gather the intelligence we need and still protect the privacy of the American people.
Would you not want to equally protect you homes back door against intruders as you would your front door? The same idea goes with your informative security.
I know this is not gun-related content, but I got wind of it from a tweet by good gun guy Deviant Ollam. 
The article is a downer, though. 
