Another wiretap enabled authorities to thwart Chicago's "El Rukns street gang" from a Libyan government-sponsored attempt to shoot down a U.S. commercial airliner with a military weapons system.
Uu> They find these all the time through other mechanisms. This episode was hilarious. An imprisoned El Rukun was conducting gang business via jailhouse payphone. One chuckly FBI agent was "decoding" the simple slang-code by which the goons communicated. After _three months_ he figured out enough of the code to bring an indictment. Some of the more amusing of these sophisticated subterfuges: Peanut = Jimmy Carter Hollywood = Ronald Reagan Roman = Policeman Change = Kill Our Friend = Qadaffi Long Demonstration = Shotgun It's interesting to note the length of time required for this "plaintext" to be decoded in an urgent matter of national security. . ~ . M. ********************************************************************* * <m..stirner@f28.n125.z1.fidonet.org> - PGP Key D30909 via servers * * > What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not <* * > warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit <* * > of resistance? Let them take arms!" - Thomas Jefferson, 1787 <* ********************************************************************* ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 -- M. Stirner - via FidoNet node 1:125/1 UUCP: ...!uunet!kumr!shelter!28!M..Stirner INTERNET: M..Stirner@f28.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG