OBL' email system

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| Bin Laden's Sneakernet Email System
| from the guess-we-can't-take-flash-drives-on-airplanes-anymore dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday May 13, @10:41 (Communications)
|https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/13/1410209/Bin-Ladens-Sneakernet-Email-System?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Osama bin Laden was a prolific writer who [1]put
together a painstaking email system that thwarted the US government's
best eavesdroppers despite having no Internet access in his hideout.
Holed up in his walled compound in northeast Pakistan with no phone or
Internet capabilities, bin Laden would type a message on his computer,
save it using a thumb-sized flash drive that he passed to a trusted
courier, who would head for a distant Internet cafe. At that location,
the courier would plug the drive into a computer, copy bin Laden's
message into an email and send it. Intelligence officials are wading
through thousands of the email exchanges after around 100 flash drives
were seized from the compound by US Navy Seals."

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Links:
0.http://hughpickens.com/
1.http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2011/0512/Bin-Laden-email-system-prevented-detection-by-US

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