Snowden has asked governments not to be taken in by the Islamic State's (Isis) latest propaganda because the encryption is fake.

In a video of the Paris attacks, Daesh threatens the EU with similar attacks and shows encrypted messages being sent using PGP emails to tell its members to attack.

But Snowden said that the encryption is fake and should not be taken seriously. Is's "spooky fake crypto" is a misleading scare tactic which means that the death cult wants Western countries to overreact that could lead to banning encryption altogether.

Snowden said that the date on the video message fails to conform to the encryption key, which itself is incorrect.

Both the UK and the US governments have been at loggerheads with tech giants like Apple, Google and Microsoft over coming out with products and services that are enabled with decryption technology, which would give access to government security firms to data when necessary.

Snowden is worried that governments will use the Daesh video as a pretext for banning encryption. He said that if they try it, journalists should say something like “you know that the Daesh encryption was faked, don’t you?”