More rebel commanders in Syria have satellite phones and ways to mask their communications.
Terrorists are increasingly using sophisticated encryption techniques to mask their communications, but Obama Administration officials were unable to reach an agreement with technology companies on ways to curb such uses that balanced privacy and public-safety concerns.
One group is synthesis of chaotic signals, which includes signal masking and spread-spectrum communications.
That includes over 200 complete uniforms from 35 combatant nations, prosthetic limbs, drawings, photographs, grenades, barbed wire, gas masks, helmets, knives, clubs, communications equipment and smoking paraphernalia.
But this seeming simplicity masked the achievements of a communications genius.
It might be satisfying for counter-culture types to blow off steam by rebelling against a mega-corporation that markets itself as the hip vanguard of the communications revolution to mask its true establishment-promoting, privacy-invading, addiction-triggering, time-wasting, soul-destroying self.
"[Nunes] informed me that most of the names in the intercepted communications were in fact masked, but that he could still figure out the probable identity of the parties," Schiff said.
This paper also extends the above adaptive synchronization method to secure chaos communications through the method of chaos masking.
When they have tried, communications from the group had been masked to appear as though they originated in Tel Aviv.
What all of this masks, though, is a more fundamental failure in communications on the part of numerous governments and NGOs who wish to encourage low-carbon behavior.
