One of the attacks in Paris was performed at the Bataclan concert hall. This shot multiple offenders into the mass audience that would listen to a concert of the Eagles of Death Metal.
Increased technical supervision is not the way. Instead, the number of human scouts and infiltrators increased. It says prominent Swedish terror experts.
(The article has been updated)
After Paris The attacks are now discussed how new attacks can be prevented and stopped in time. New Technology asked the experts Hans Brown and Magnus Norell sort out the situation.
The secret services of France received several warnings from colleagues in Iraq that attacks against Paris was imminent. How to determine which warnings are be heeded?
Magnus Norell, researchers are focusing on, among other things, terrorism and tied inter alia, the think tank the Washington Institute for Near East Policy:
– This is what’s so hard. French intelligence is clever and has extensive experience of Islamist terrorism, but have lots of people to check and get a lot of noise. Now this was a coordinated attack with multiple cells. With that, there are opportunities to infiltrate somewhere.
Simply use more surveillance technology is not enough, consider Magnus Norell.
– signals, monitoring of mobile communication can certainly be used but nothing beats out “human intelligence”.
För to uncover terrorists who want to intercept and monitor technology must first find them, and their networks.
- One must keep track of militant environments, follow radicalizing web pages, be preventive, interfere all the time and catch any that you think are threats, and interrogate them.
Even Hans Brown, terrorism researcher at Kings College in London, considers that warnings about impending terrorist attacks can be intercepted better through more human intelligence:
– All that stuff is all about sophisticated skills, if the experience of skilled analysts. One “must” actually be right every time, and can not replace the human assessment with the help of technology.
Who measures to prevent new terrorist attacks will we get to see the future?
– You will internationally increase the demands on To some countries, pulls up his police and intelligence services. This applies to Belgium. They have a rather weak police force, and strong radicalized Islamist environments, says Hans Brown.
– You can look at Israel to see how technologies can be used going forward. There, for example, shops with metal frames to prevent weapons taken out. But really I do not think that what happened in Paris will bring major changes, says Magnus Norell.
How big threat constitutes encryption in the fight against terrorism?
Magnus Norell:
– Encryption is certainly always something that develops on both sides. There’s good encryption system that is difficult to crack. But it all becomes easy a cat and mouse game, because there are developed countermeasures.
His Brown:
– Sure it is a problem that encryption can be used via Whatsupp and other channels, but if I were a terrorist, I would probably assume that any encryption can fundamentally broken and that the manufacturer of the system relinquishes encryption keys.
Sources have him declared that there will be terrorists ignore mobiles and electronic communications and instead uses the so-called dead letterboxes – that is, messages will be received in some places.
In August suggested Sweden’s Interior Minister Anders Ygeman (S) a new national strategy against terrorism.
It means that investments in preventive measures, but also stringent proposals. National Task Force should for example be able to get the help of military helicopters during major events, and the secret coercive measures should be reviewed. A new one – secret data reading – may be introduced.
– It is a good strategy which it has chosen to listen to different researchers and experts – and moved in to build a model that uses both soft and harder efforts.
– As for the helicopters, the police are very grateful for that support. It buys them time. However, it is also important to now draw up international strategies to counter threats from jihadism.
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