U.S. Officials Claim That Terrorists Are Now More Difficult To Track After Recent NSA Revelations

Terrorists Harder To Track After Snowden's Leaks, Officials Say -- L.A. Times

WASHINGTON — Suspected terrorists have changed how they communicate and have become more difficult to track as a result of former contractor Edward Snowden’s disclosures about U.S. surveillance operations, according to current and former officials who say that the changes have led to a significant loss of intelligence.

How much that loss amounts to remains unknown as the government’s classified assessment is continuing, they said.

In addition, Snowden’s disclosures about eavesdropping in Russia and China gave each of those countries insights that are already thought to have impaired the National Security Agency’s ability to intercept their communications, the officials said.

Among the disclosures from Snowden that were published in the Washington Post and the Guardian was that Skype, the Internet calling service, was among the systems that provided data to the NSA’s secret PRISM database. That disclosure contradicted a widespread belief that calls made via Skype were difficult or impossible to intercept.

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My Comment: The hard-core terror groups always knew that the NSA was watching them .... I am skeptical that these recent NSA revelations are a shock to them. As to terrorist wannabes who do not have the experienced of more senior Al Qaeda and terror leaders .... they probably will be changing their means of communication .... hence making them harder to track.