Excerpts from a N.Y. Times News Service piece available at http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/info/071896/info12_18308.html : NEW YORK (Jul 18, 1996 02:00 a.m. EDT) -- In the seven weeks since the trial of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef began, the case, charging a plot to blow American jumbo jets out of the sky, has come to hinge on one off-white laptop computer. [Most of the story, dealing with the defense contention that Philipine police altered files on the laptop, deleted.] Several witnesses reported that some computer files were in code, part of which the police could not decipher. Last week, after the jury adjourned for lunch, Duffy [the judge in the case] prodded the defense to point out that encoding files was not unusual and that some software programs offer such an option. "I don't want the jury to think that encryption is something that only bad guys do," Duffy said.