[FYI] (Fwd) FC: WorldNetDaily reports WTC-Pentagon terrorists used e

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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Date sent:      	Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:15:46 -0400
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http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/21/2220202

    WorldNetDaily Reports WTC Terrorists Used Encryption
    posted by admin on Friday September 21, @05:17PM

    There must be something about encryption and terrorists in
    the same graf that makes levelheaded journalists go nutty. Just
    take a compelling -- if only because it's so strange -- article
    posted Thursday on the conservative WorldNetDaily news site. It
    claims, implausibly, that Osama bin Laden "has the NSA beat on the
    employment front, hiring the best computer experts on the market."
    One allegedly is Nabil Khan Kani, a Syrian living in Barcelona.
    Kani's supposedly the author of some data-hiding steganography
    products that have been giving U.S. spies fits. An excerpt:
    "Computer and terrorism experts suggest that the missing Syrian
    computer whiz was the author of the technology known as
    steganography... This technology enables users to bypass
    electronic monitoring by hiding messages randomly in seemingly
    innocent digital files, such as music files, those of the popular
    online marketplace eBay, pornographic files or even e-mail
    headers... U.S. intelligence has been unable to trace their
    authors and recipients in the three years since first detecting
    evidence of their existence in the files of the bin Laden
    organization. U.S. agencies now believe that the attacks in New
    York and Washington were coordinated through those encrypted
    electronic messages, which were opened by 'key' holders. They also
    believe that terrorists are in possession of all or part of the
    codes used by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the National
    Reconnaissance Office, Air Force Intelligence, Army Intelligence,
    Naval Intelligence, Marine Corps Intelligence and the intelligence
    offices of the State Department and Department of Energy." Watch
    for Sen. Judd "Anti-Crypto" Gregg to cite this report in a floor
    speech.




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