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2008-01-24 Science & Technology

U.S. Web site offers encryption tool for al-Qaeda backers

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Posted by ryuge 2008-01-24 06:46|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Quiet, you fools! The new version's got a backdoor!

Half the hackers and cryptographers in Islamist circles work for the NSA. And we're not telling you which half.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-01-24 08:09|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-01-24 08:09|| Front Page Top

#2 It doesn't matter how many bits they use. That's not how we break 'em.

Wonder if this software has a distinctive trace associated with files it encrypts? Wouldn't it be interesting if you could immediately identify terrorist communications based on their having used this software to encrypt them. After all, it's one thing to know what's being said, and quite another to know who said it and to whom.

Posted by Iblis 2008-01-24 12:35|| 2008-01-24 12:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Shhhhh! Y'all keep quiet about ~~how sneaky we are~~ this stuff. DON'T give away any secrets.

Thank goodness nobody from Al-Q ever reads Rantburg or we'd be in real trouble....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-01-24 12:50|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-01-24 12:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Relax, I'm just bullshitting. I'm a liberal arts major, for the love of Ham. Why would I know anyone in the NSA?

Honest.

Seriously? The more uncertainty and distrust you can sow among the bastards, the better. Paranoia myopically checks every crevice of his boots for hidden scorpions while blind ignorant overconfidence strides happily across the world's stage. Most of the time the scorpion's in somebody else's shoe.

Except this time, Achmed. Better check, because I'm short a scorpion. And every copy of Microsoft has a keystroke recorder & remailer activated when you set your language to Arabic or Farsi. (Who needs to break unbreakable crypto when you can just catch the keystrokes involved in the composition process?)

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-01-24 14:33|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-01-24 14:33|| Front Page Top

#5 They are in your eggs.
The are in everybody's eggs.

/Firesign Theater

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2008-01-24 16:40|| 2008-01-24 16:40|| Front Page Top

#6 vice president of technology evangelism?

Posted by Ebbomolet Trotsky1353 2008-01-24 17:33|| 2008-01-24 17:33|| Front Page Top

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