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It's become so fundamental to the operations of these groups that bin Laden and other Muslim extremists are teaching it at their camps in Afghanistan and Sudan, they add.

How can the then director of the FBI get away with making statements like this without offering a shred of proof that, indeed shows, ANY terrorist organisation using crypto and or steg? It's boggling considering that again, most persons with a decent (note the word DECENT) amount of compsec knowledge, would know, or at least assume PGP would be the way to go in efforts to safeguard messages. 4096 bit keys? They're supposed to be unbreakable, yet those in office are convinced that terrorists are using encryption. So the government has broken it, or are lying.

Another puzzling thing to note, if encryption is being used, and the government can support their claims, someone in government must have the capability to crack encryption, and assuming "Muslim extremists in Afghanistan, Albania, Britain, Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Syria, the USA, the West Bank and Gaza and Yemen" are using crypto, some agency must have some ultra powerful quantum based grid computer up to crack anything in seconds.

Reasoning for me stating this is simple, many times these stories break, the government has quickly 'broken the code', 'broken the code', and 'broken the code', in just enough time for most media outlets to report an all inclusive -- from-arrest-to-code-breaking -- article in time for headline news. Perplexing? No. Moronic? Yes.

"There is a tendency out there to envision a stereotypical Muslim fighter standing with an AK-47 in barren Afghanistan," says Ben Venzke, director of special intelligence projects for iDEFENSE, a cyberintelligence and risk management company based in Fairfax, Va.

"But Hamas, Hezbollah and bin Laden's groups have very sophisticated, well-educated people. Their technical equipment is good, and they have the bright, young minds to operate them," he said.

iDefense happens to have government contracts so I would not trust their word on anything in this article, nor any input on the subject. Nothing personal to iDefense per-se but business is business, and iDefense will try to sway the issue to their favour, perhaps on hopes of spooking some business out of government.

content

1. Desiring no more than what one has; satisfied.

2. Ready to accept or acquiesce; willing: She was content to spread her legs for fun and profit.

Call it stupid, moronic, but according to these so called terms of service agreements, if someone did click on the link, in theory I should be able to track down users via their ISP's and stake my claim.

Oh well... back to real news "Priests need love too"

Will Janet go on stage and show some bewbees? Intelligence Failures

So do I, and I applaud them cause it sure is one uglay ass machine

Adam! Zilog Z80-A @ 3.58MHz 80K, 64K available TV (RF) & composite video 24 X 36 text, 16 colors 256 X 192 graphics cartridge, video, AdamNet 3 internal expansion slots Daisy-wheel printer 1 or 2 internal cassette drives External floppy drive OS: BASIC, loaded from cassette

fear... Just hope you didn't record Rick James' "Cold Blooded" over BASIC

made sure that pooch got some back up too... kittenator v.1 (haiya!)

pffftt my new and improved Despotic Doggie v.1 would sooooo own your Aibo

Coincidentally, the majority of members of the WI-FI Alliance are American companies, so I would be skeptical to pass this off as nothing more than a `shit China is gonna kill us with their low manufacturing costs' response. If the security is supposedly better as the post states, than why not verify this, and migrate to it. Wouldn't that make more sense than basically stating "you're security is good! but it's not a standard so we don't want it"

Well I too will exploit this with the introduction of the Ronald Reagan Super Simon now taking orders at the price of... I forgot.

I'm sure battery vendors can find something to do more or less the same but why should they when they could continue charging you? Salesman: Ok I'm gonna give you this product and dont worry you will never have to see me again! Dream on. Its not in the vendors best interests to do something like that so don't expect anything to come out of their labs for like... ever.

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