Re: WSJ Encrypted Laptop

2002-06-12 Thread Jim Choate
This sort of stuff will only go on for a few more years until the distributed process and universal namespace sorts of approaches replace the current paradigms. When that happens losing a laptop will mean nothing because it won't have the data 'on it' in the conventional sense. On Sun, 24 Feb 2

Re: WSJ Encrypted Laptop

2002-06-12 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Aimee Farr wrote: > I question how well we correlate strike, protest, subversive > activity/agitation/propaganda, and sabotage/IW inferences these days -- > especially at home, due to domestic constraints. I would think that would > keep a "war room" quite busy with inferenc

Re: WSJ Encrypted Laptop

2002-02-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 10:55:49AM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: > I don't think we can depend on the accuracy of the WSJ in reporting the > true chain of events. They should have immediately published a MD of each > encrypted file and later the extracted keys, that way it would be possible > to

Re: WSJ Encrypted Laptop

2002-02-24 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:06 AM 2/24/2002 -0800, John Young wrote: >According to the report below, the WSJ hired its own >computer consultant to examine the Al Qaeda laptop. >But there is no mention of the consultant helping with >decrypts. I don't think we can depend on the accuracy of the WSJ in reporting the tru

RE: WSJ Encrypted Laptop

2002-02-24 Thread Aimee Farr
> > "Sometimes chance and happenstance play an > > incredible part in an incredible story," Bussey says. > > Bullshit. > > ~Aimee Al-Q must have taken a relationship-selling course. (The Psychology of Relationship Selling : Developing Repeat and Referral Business; Relationship Selling: The Key to

RE: WSJ Encrypted Laptop

2002-02-24 Thread John Young
We've noted here the rise in "lost" and "stolen" laptops containing sensitive and classified information. First, one or two disappeared while a spook was drunk or was left behind in a taxi or taken from an unidentified location. Then amazing reports of more losses, the number rising quickly, fi

RE: WSJ Encrypted Laptop

2002-02-24 Thread Aimee Farr
> http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/ > this_just_in/documents/02093041.htm > > The Boston Phoenix, January 3-10, 2002 > > How the Journal got Al Qaeda's computers > > By Dan Kennedy > > This past Monday's Wall Street Journal led with an > astounding story about a personal computer