"city like Abbottabad" <-- again, you’re deviating from the facts. The courier would take it many miles away to another small semi-rural setting, not Abbottabad.
“Do you have any basis for this belief?" Want me do YOUR research for you? You claimed the solution is HTTPS (or encryption in general), I said no, and you want me to prove the objection?
Anyway, aside from the fact that I was born and raised in Pak and lived there till I finished high school at the age of 17, I know what they do online and know the culture intimately, and understand how vast the tastes and interests are when income and education levels are so varied. The ISPs there are regulated, sites often blocked, and govt openly and proudly snoops (like I have said many times before).
Now before you tell me to look this up for you, do your own research, please amigo! You might be a great "mechanic" but you’re trying to drive a Ferrari in a rally, and arguing "Why not, its the greatest car!" Context is everything. This is getting tiring, boring and old, you take yours, I take mine, and off we go. :-)
Also, get a passport and travel a bit, you'll notice how invisible some things are to you in your environment, and how much you take them for granted. How many facts of life are not facts but assumptions.
I'm sure you more knowledge of Pakistan than I do, but I find it hard to believe that encryption is so rarely used that the Pakistani government can afford to monitor and investigate anyone who sends an encrypted communication.
It's also a little grating to have you lecture me on my assumptions, whilst simultaneously making unfounded assumptions about me.
Sorry you feel lectured buddy, was not my intention. And you're right, I did make unfounded assumptions about you.
Anyway, they did not overlook the oldest security technique in computer history (encryption/cryptography) without reason - and you gotta give those fuckers credit, those mountain goats gave the most powerful military in the world a run for its money for a decade.
I'm sure they had a reason, but I suspect a lot of it is that they lacked sufficient technical expertise, rather than it being a deliberate decision of an informed individuals. That they didn't encrypt all the information at their hideout indicates a lack of technical knowledge.
That said, you're right that they're extremely good at hiding via more conventional means.
“Do you have any basis for this belief?" Want me do YOUR research for you? You claimed the solution is HTTPS (or encryption in general), I said no, and you want me to prove the objection?
Anyway, aside from the fact that I was born and raised in Pak and lived there till I finished high school at the age of 17, I know what they do online and know the culture intimately, and understand how vast the tastes and interests are when income and education levels are so varied. The ISPs there are regulated, sites often blocked, and govt openly and proudly snoops (like I have said many times before).
Now before you tell me to look this up for you, do your own research, please amigo! You might be a great "mechanic" but you’re trying to drive a Ferrari in a rally, and arguing "Why not, its the greatest car!" Context is everything. This is getting tiring, boring and old, you take yours, I take mine, and off we go. :-)
Also, get a passport and travel a bit, you'll notice how invisible some things are to you in your environment, and how much you take them for granted. How many facts of life are not facts but assumptions.