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Originally Posted by polak
If you realized the meta-data mining ability of the worlds governments then you would not think that. They have a very good idea of who and where is planning what. Obviously it's not perfect and you can escape it if you're able to completely remove yourself from any tech but then you also stand out as the one weird house without internet or a cellphone owner.
Canada is actually one of the leaders in this field. Maybe why we haven't seen any major attacks here (yet. knock on wood)
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I really disagree. There are many parts of the world where governments have little to no control. Our government is also very reliant on people cooperating with them.
It took the combined forces of the best intelligence agencies in the world a decade to find Osama Bin Laden. As previously mentioned, it took 4 months to find Salah Abdeslam, the Paris attacker. This was despite knowing his identity and approximately where he was. The only reason they found him was stumbling across a finger print in another raid. They then monitored local fast food establishments until they found an unusually large pizza order indicating that there might be a safe house.
This was far from some kind of high tech sting.
Canada simply does not have the same issues. We don't have huge sprawling ghettos of tens of thousands of people who reject and/or are rejected by the mainstream. It's much easier to use intelligence to thwart disjointed groups with little resources.