Attacks in Paris

[tonea2003]

Again more empty personal abuse from the theophobe chorus.

irony lost on yourself as per

you really have a low threshold these days don't you?

i would love to know why you think i have theophobia?

the word fundamentalist...i'll leave it at that shall i

 

[jimbobblue]

Can somebody explain how increasing the number of cyber spies at GCHQ over the next 5 years is making our streets safer from this sort of attack? The government response will

"Explore whether internet service providers can work together, with government help, to divert more malware attacks and block bad addresses used against British internet users.
A renewed crackdown on cyber-criminals, with increased capabilities for the National Cyber Crime Unit."

That means going forward British financial institutions are better protected against cyber attack, make home users less prone to viruses and probably make Britain a better place for business to operate their online presence.

However against a back drop of cutting Police financing by 20% then as a response to Friday I think its bloody woeful. Even 1000 out of the 1900 GCHQ new recruits were already announced back on 9th September

Cyber spies are crucial to public safety. You can have 100 cops on the street these days and not one will know what's going on inside joe blogs house as he plans a terrorist attack, however place a tech guy in a building with a computer and they can provide the intelligence needed to complete raids on addresses to prevent the attack. The more info you can gather the more chance you can prevent an attack.

Most guys competing these attacks are people who watch videos online and "Google" about isis and bomb making and are lone/small groups that want to be part of Isis so think they need to do their dirty work in attacks on our shores.

The prevention is the best way of dealing with it. Either that or have loads of cops and be reactive to it.

 

[Chris in London]

I agree, it's likely that London will be targeted and that they'll eventually succeed. However, those 'cyber spooks' will have prevented many attacks already and are the right force to strengthen IMO.

London has been consistently targeted for the last 10 years. It was consistently targeted for forty years before that, only by a different set of terrorists. Not so long ago they did succeed. A young soldier was brutally murdered in the street.

You're right that in time another 7/7 type attack will probably succeed. Appalling though that will be, London will carry on.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

French special forces are getting ready for going into Syria. I was having a look at their (unofficial) website yesterday.

They are not to worried about boots on ground when it comes to special forces. as one said, "We don't call it a special operation. We call it Tuesday."

 

[Deleted member 58678]

It's weird how ISIS seem to be uniting Russia with France, US, ourselves, etc.

If left to our own devices we might have ended up at war with Russia at some point, now ISIL have actually brought us together as an unbeatable alliance. How stupid are they?

 

[George Hannah]

irony lost on yourself as per you really have a low threshold these days don't you? i would love to know why you think i have theophobia? the word fundamentalist...i'll leave it at that shall i

Do you think fundamentalist atheist ignorance and intolerance is of a superior quality to the religious variety? If so you have taken an important step in self diagnosis.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Not wumming mate I am asking a genuine question. I shan't be happy if proved right but I fear I will be one night in London soon.

It said on Newsnight the other night that seven plots had been thwarted in this country this year. At some point there will be one that goes undetected and people will die in this country at the hands of ISIL or another of the many many Islamic terrorist organisations. But having more money and more manpower put into thwarting them, there will be many more stopped before they happen. Just because one or two or six might happen, the extra intelligence and work towards stopping them might stop six times that many so it will be well worth it.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Again more empty personal abuse from the theophobe chorus.

Being told you're talking nonsense is not personal abuse, and how petty can you be to call people theophobes?

 

[Never Mind The Pollocks]

Do you think fundamentalist atheist ignorance and intolerance is of a superior quality to the religious variety? If so you have taken an important step in self diagnosis.

I'll bite. When was the last terrorist attack carried out by 'fundamentalist athiests'?

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Do you think fundamentalist atheist ignorance and intolerance is of a superior quality to the religious variety? If so you have taken an important step in self diagnosis.

Atheism is not ignorance. It is a choice when looking at religion and making an informed decision that you will follow an enlightened life of realism, not living in a fantasists world.