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Britain

Extremist pleads guilty; had Islamic State data in cuff link

2017-03-21

[Ynet] A British court has disclosed that an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-linked hard boy has pleaded guilty to five offenses after being found with incriminating information stored in a cuff link.

Samata Ullah had a USB-equipped cufflink with a Linux operating system loaded onto it that was used to store hard boy data, including a blog.

He pleaded guilty earlier this month at the Old Bailey courthouse to five offenses including possession of an article for terrorist purposes. The court withheld the information until Monday for legal reasons.

The 34-year-old from Wales was jugged
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
in September and admitted ties to the so-called Islamic State group. He was found to have provided instructional videos on how to protect sensitive data and remain anonymous online through encryption programs.

Posted by:trailing wife

#9 I'm so inured with terrorism threats that all I can think is "that's one dapper Jihadist."

Posted by: regular joe 2017-03-21 13:32

#8 No Whiskey Mike, I'm just anal about some stuff.

Sure, you could call it 'diligence' I suppose.

SteveS, that's great! I'll steal that line.

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2017-03-21 13:26

#7 Nod back to WWII spycraft where they had micro-dots in their cufflinks, and even small cameras that could take a picture or two.

Posted by: DarthVader 2017-03-21 10:41

#6 I used to have a tie clip with an Ethernet port. But I stopped wearing it because I was always tripping over the cable.

Posted by: SteveS 2017-03-21 10:27

#5 I find it interesting that anyone even looked for a USB cufflink. Sounds like extreme diligence or a tip-off.

Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2017-03-21 10:13

#4 That's why I love Rantburg!

Posted by: JohnQC 2017-03-21 09:47

#3 You can put a lot of data on a 8GB flash drive, including a lightweight Linux full operating system (like Puppy or Xubuntu), and still leave room for a WordPress 'blog'

That being said, a quick search shows that 'USB Cufflinks' are pretty easy to come by and maybe even come in desirable Jihadist styles/colors from elsewhere.

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2017-03-21 08:27

#2 There are USB memory cards that are small enough to be disguised in some way as a cuff link. There are some that have more than enough space on them to have a complete Linux operating system and a ton of data.

I have a few Raspberry Pi's and BeagleBone micro computers slightly bigger than a matchbox that use these cards for just that.

Posted by: Spinesing Gray3122 2017-03-21 08:21

#1 Samata Ullah had a USB-equipped cufflink with a Linux operating system loaded onto it that was used to store hard boy data, including a blog.

I'm a bit of a neophyte when it comes to computers but is it possible to load everything into a cufflink? It also strains credulity to picture members of ISIS wearing cufflinks.

Posted by: JohnQC 2017-03-21 07:29

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