Bin Laden’s Computer
Time reports that Bin Laden’s computer contains a “mother lode of intel“. The article ends with the question: “The official posed the same question that’s likely on plenty of other people’s minds: ‘Can you imagine what’s on Osama bin Laden’s hard drive?’”
The question on my mind is rather, with so much to lose, why wasn’t it all encrypted?
johann
It didn’t seem they were that security saavy. One report I read their email security was essentially Osama writing orders out to a document, storing it on a usb key, and then having a courier go to an internet cafe and email out information from the usb key.
With ways to integrate encryption to gmail, through greasemonkey scripts and things like TOR one could create a much more secure network if one were so inclined.
Though I think TOR was just compromised with some honeypot exit nodes.