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'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-saw-an-unclelode-once dept.

itwbennett writes "The raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan Sunday also turned up an 'intelligence harvest' of computer-based data that was described by an anonymous government source as 'the motherlode of intelligence.' The data is being sifted through at a secret site in Afghanistan. An unnamed official was quoted by Politico as saying: 'Hundreds of people are going through it now. It's going to be great even if only 10 percent of it is actionable. They cleaned it out. Can you imagine what's on Osama bin Laden's hard drive?'"

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  1. My bet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Goat porn

  2. They found terrorist porn by countertrolling · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lots of snuff films

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  3. Re:Porn? by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, lots of pictures sexy...ankles!!

  4. I think he cheated by SuperCharlie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nobody has a score that low on minesweeper...

  5. Can you imagine what's on Osama's hard drive? by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obama's real birth certificate?

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  6. Re:Truecrypt by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Suicide bombers rarely make the same mistakes twice.

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  7. Wikileaks by goombah99 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would imagine a big old truecrypt partition, though perhaps he didn't encrypt things for some reason?

    Well I'm reading through the files from bin laden's drives that were posted on wikileaks an hour ago and it looks like they he used steganography based on goat porn.

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  8. And they found ... by gfreeman · · Score: 5, Funny

    22 million email addresses in a file marked "sony.dat"

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  9. Re:Umm by The+Grim+Reefer2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Encryption only really works if you do it right, every time. Screw up only once, and you could leave enough crumbs to compromise it all.

    We're talking about the NSA getting this drive. So by doing it right you mean everything's encrypted and in the event of a raid the drive is melted with thermite, mixed with neodymium magnet dust, placed in a 5T magnetic field, stepped on by five elephants, mixed into bird food and fed to a flock of >100 migratory birds.

  10. Re:Umm by Surt · · Score: 4, Funny

    And then the guys at the NSA say: hmm, interesting challenge!

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  11. Re:Assuming does... by blueg3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Probably from TFA.

    Title: "Reports: Computers seized at bin Laden compound"
    Subtitle: "U.S. authorities removed hard drives, CDs, DVDs, USB sticks in what is described as a 'motherlode' of data"

    I'm guessing that maybe the bin Laden compound had computers, hard drives, CDs, DVDs, and USB sticks, which U. S. authorities seized. But that's just my uninformed guess.