-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO : N48 10'07'' E011 33'53'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 04:59:07 -0400 From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> Reply-To: farber@cis.upenn.edu To: ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: Osama bin Laden and crypto

Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:35:51 +1100 From: Nathan Cochrane <ncochrane@theage.fairfax.com.au>

Hi Dave

Over the last nine months, I've seen many reports allege bin Laden is responsible for virtually everything short of global warming that goes wrong in the world.

Last January, retired Admiral David Jeremiah, claimed: "Increasingly, people like Osama bin Laden will be able to acquire capabilities on satellites". Jeremiah took over the Rumsfeld Commission from Donald Rumsfeld when the latter became Defense Secretary-Designate. The Commission's concern was that the US would face a "Space Pearl Harbor".

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/bmdo-01b.html

Given the push for yet more controls on freedom's bulwark in the information age, crypto, this quote from James Bamford's new book on the NSA is jarring.

"According to information obtained for Body of Secrets, NSA regularly listens to unencrypted calls from suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden, in hiding in Afghanistan," Bamford writes. "Bin Laden uses a portable INMARSAT (satellite) phone that transmits and receives calls over spacecraft owned by the International Maritime Satellite Organisation. "According to intelligence officials, bin Laden is aware that the United States can eavesdrop on his international communications but he does not seem to care. To impress cleared visitors, NSA analysts occasionally play audiotapes of bin Laden talking to his mother over an INMARSAT connection." http://www.it.mycareer.com.au/news/2001/09/18/FFXBHD3OLRC.html

********************************************************************************* This email and any files transmitted with it may be legally privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not disclose or use the information contained in it. If you have received this email in error, please notify us by return email and permanently delete the document. *********************************************************************************

For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/