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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.729.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Reporter Rukmini Callimachi is always looking for new ways to eavesdrop on ISIS operatives online. Recently, she got a new look into how ISIS members might be using the internet to coordinate their attacks. Plus, a new Yes, Yes, No. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

From Gimlet, this is reply all, MPJ vote.

0:14.0

Okay, so I guess the first thing is just can you guys say your names and your titles?

0:18.0

So we have them?

0:19.0

Rick Minikali-Maki and I'm a reporter at The New York Times covering terrorism.

0:23.0

Runa Sandvik, I am the director of information security for the newsroom at The New York Times.

0:29.0

Wait, what does that mean?

0:31.0

That anything security, encryption related for the people in the newsroom sort of falls under me.

0:39.0

So last week I headed up to New York Times to talk with Rick Minikali and Runa.

0:43.0

You might remember Rick Minikali, we actually talked to her back in episode 33 about how ISIS uses the internet.

0:50.0

And Rick Minikali reporting is so good because she's like, she does a lot of reporting on ISIS using the internet.

0:57.0

She's kind of like a narc at a high school, like a cop who's like hang out with the high school kids trying to fit in, but with ISIS on the internet.

1:05.0

And since we talked last summer, a lot has happened.

1:09.0

And Rick Minikali has learned way more about how ISIS talks on the internet in its most private confidential conversations.

1:16.0

So of course I was dying to talk to her.

1:19.0

But before we could even get into that, Rick Minikali was just excited to show me this new encrypted chat program she has on her phone.

1:26.0

ISIS people use it to have conversations and Rick Minikali has been listening in on those conversations because that's what she does.

1:33.0

What's interesting is you'll see them posting, let me see if I can pull up some of them.

1:37.0

You have it on your phone?

1:38.0

Yeah, it's on my phone.

1:40.0

And let's see if I can find some of them.

1:43.0

They'll post things, they'll say, okay, please ask your friends to join the Kalafa News Channel.

1:50.0

And then at the bottom here, I'll say this should not reach Twitter nor Facebook.

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