In this issue:

• Backdoors Won't Solve Comey's Going Dark Problem
• Another Salvo in the Second Crypto War (of Words)
• Cosa Nostra Dead Drops
• Bizarre High-Tech Kidnapping
• Fugitive Located by Spotify
• Intimidating Military Personnel by Targeting Their Families
• Stagefright Vulnerability in Android Phones

from the August 15, 2015 Crypto-Gram Newsletter
by Bruce Schneier
read by Dan Henage