NotSoBlackNet: terrorist pays by money order

http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/15812.html Do Terrorists Troll the Net? by Niall McKay [...] "We fight for our independence," he said during one June conversation. Harkat-ul-Ansar is on the State Department's list of the 30 most dangerous terrorist organizations in the world. Establishing Ibrahim's true identity is difficult. The most compelling evidence that he was acting on behalf of Harkat-ul-Ansar is a US$1,000 money order that he sent to Chameleon in an attempt to buy stolen military software. [...] Although he used several anonymous Hotmail accounts to send his email, Ibrahim always accessed the Net from an Internet service provider in New Delhi [...] Savec0re said he also emailed the individual an encrypted file of information from the Indian atomic research center, including diagrams of reactors and trajectory calculations, and an analysis of five Indian nuclear tests. "The next day I got a call from the so-called FBI agent but he had an amazingly strong Pakistani accent," [...]
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