At 10:59 AM -0700 9/28/97, Brad Dolan wrote:
HAMAS USING THE INTERNET TO BROADCAST ATTACK INSTRUCTIONS ...] ****
Hamas Using the Internet to Broadcast Attack Instructions (IINS News Service -Israel-9/28) According to the Foreign Report Weekly, the Hamas terror organization is using the Internet to transmit information pertaining to terror attacks.
The report states the information was confirmed by Israeli security officials.
Hamas is sending maps, pictures and other details pertaining to terror attacks, using encryption methods. The General Security Service (GSS/Shin-Bet) believes most of the data is being sent to the Hamas worldwide center, located in Britain.
But I told you all this several weeks ago. Through sources I have no intention of discussing, I discovered that PGP 5.0 is indeed being used by the Palestinia freedom fighters in their war against the Zionist occupiers of their homeland. They got 5.0 shortly after it was released...and got it their forces by more direct means that that "public relations fig leaf" of scanning in source code. (The Palestinian farmer living in Jaffa, with title going back several generations, is not much impressed when a Jew from Krakow arrives with ZOG soldiers to expel him from his orange groves, citing the Old Testament as his title to the land. Any wonder that he and his children and their children think blowing up some ZOG residents is a reasonable response?) I described this use of PGP to some PGP, Inc. employees at the last Cypherpunks meeting. Two of them seemed deeply concerned. Apparently the "freedom fighters" that Phil Z. so conspicuously refers to, the Karen guerillas in the jungles of Myanmar/Burma, are somehow different from the Hamas freedom fighters seeking reclamation of their own land and destruction of the illegal ZOG state. PGP and strong crypto is spreading quickly to many freedom fighters...and even some terrorists (even by my definition). Who expected otherwise? --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."