In my experience of using Facebook groups with students they pick up communications far quicker than email.
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WASHINGTON -- The failure to pick up communications between terrorists involved in the deadly Paris attacks last week is feeding a belief in Washington that encryption technology was used to carry out the assault.
The report from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent agency within the federal government's executive branch, centers on programs revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that the NSA uses to pick up communications of foreigners that may also involve a U.S. citizen.
They picked up communications gear, weapons, documents and the remains of people killed in the strike, any of which might help determine who those people were.
By late summer 2012, however, American intelligence agencies began picking up communications with ominous signals that Mr. Assad's military was moving chemical weapons and possibly mixing them in preparation for use.
Richard Driehaus, who oversees $2.6 billion in assets at Chicago's Driehaus Capital Management, picks Nextel Communications because of the strong operating profits (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) it posted in its September quarter.
Last month the Washington Post reported that the FBI had picked up communications between Flynn and Kislyak but had not found any evidence of wrongdoing or "illicit ties to the Russian government".
Its electronic listening devices pick up enemy communications and, more importantly, its video camera tells troops where the enemy is.
"The fact that we didn't pick up any communications is probably a pretty good indication that it was used," Burr said when asked if there was any evidence that the Paris attackers used encrypted channels to plan the deadly strikes.
