How will terrorists communicate now that they know their phone calls are listened to...?

[kentuck]

and their email and Internet messages are spied upon?

Will they resort to tin cans with a fine wire? Will they go back to carrier pigeons? Will they come out of their caves, build a fire, and send smoke signals?

How do they get around the NSA eavesdropping? How is it different now that they know they are not communicating in privacy? What changes will they make? Serious question.

[snooper2]

1. couriers, same way they have been for a LONG time

[kentuck]

3. Does this exposure make it easier for them in any way?

Or more difficult?

[snooper2]

12. I don't think it makes a difference..

feet on the ground are the best intelligence methods...

[DetlefK]

13. The Italian Mafia uses pen&paper for important messages to this day.

[The Straight Story]

2. They will get elected to office and make their own communications secret

[RC]

9. +10

[jsr]

4. Strong encryption and VPN

[Romulus Quirinus]

17. My personal nightmare is that they secretly figured out that P=NP

Then it's game over. Someone made a movie about just that!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_Salesman_(2012_film)

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. They will do it...

The same way they have been doing it

[KansDem]

6. Code talkers

Like the US and the use of Native Americans' language during WWII, terrorists could look in their part of the world for speakers of languages that have no written or recorded history.

[Catherina]

7. Terrorists stopped communicating with those modern means long ago

This is why Bin Laden's compound had no internet. There was a good thread about this about a week ago but I don't remember whose it was.

They made the changes long ago.

Now if you're asking about the terrorists we seem most concerned about, like the environmental *terrorists* who just burned down 40 Tons of GMO Sugar Beets in Eastern Oregon, they'll find a new way to communicate. Carrier pigeons are probably being trained all over now lol.

[kentuck]

11. Well, in that case...

Isn't the NSA just wasting their time and a whole lot of money?

[Catherina]

16. Yes if going by the excuse that this is about terrorists

This is about national security which covers everything military, domestic disturbances, economic, and political. The NSA was a booming operation decades before Al Qaeda existed.

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. That's what I was going to say, too.

The Terrorists have know about this for years and have compensated/evolved long ago.

[siligut]

8. At church and other club meetings

Code and Desperately Seeking Susan methods for distance communication.

[Nimajneb Nilknarf]

10. They'll communicate in metaphor

Like the Navajo.

[HardTimes99]

20. Beware of any Help Wanted Craigslist ads for poets or fiction writers, all ye budding

William Blakes and Herman Melvilles.

[Ed Suspicious]

14. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. Sakoth - his eyes uncovered!

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. They have known this for years

That is why they have used couriers.

Americans are the last to know...though some of us suspected it.

[justiceischeap]

19. The terrorists already knew we were listening to their calls

it was the rest of America, and her citizens, that seemed to be without that understanding.

[Doc_Technical]

21. A key code

As used in the novel "The Key to Rebecca"