In the wake of the terrorist attacks on Paris, an anti-Edward Snowden clamor grows as critics blame his revelations and exhortations in favor of encryption for allowing the perpetrators to succeed without detection, The Daily Dot reports. “Commentary from terror expert on CNN: ‘The terrorists have read Snowden. They know not to use their phones. We cannot predict anything now,’” the Independent Journal’s Benny Johnson tweeted. His tweet comes on the heels of a Yahoo! Tech report that alleges the terrorists employed PlayStation 4s to privately plan the attacks. Meanwhile, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, L. Gordon Crovitz maintains that as some of the most stringent surveillance laws in the world failed to protect French citizens, it behooves the U.S. to “join the intelligence battle to improve data mining” as a way to both “stand in solidarity with France” and protect its own citizens.
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