Paris Attacks: Did Terrorists In France Use PlayStation 4?

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Mark Melin
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If the recent terrorist attacks in France expose anything it might be the difficulty security forces face in tracking potential terrorist communications. Even with a worldwide electronic dragnet on digital messages, identifying legitimate terrorists across billions upon billions of messages circling the globe every few minutes and cracking the code of terrorists disguising their messaging is a daunting and potentially impossible task for any security agency. Against this backdrop is a new theory that some of the French terrorist plot might have been discussed using undetectable coded messages on a PlayStation 4. As PlayStation counsel found in accused terrorist possession,…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.