Re: Hijackers' e-mails were unencrypted

2001-10-03 Thread Adam Fields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says: I can just see it coming -- their email was in the clear and we still coudln't find them; imagine how much harder it will be when everybody uses cryptography. I don't think we can win either way. Of course, when everybody uses state-sanctioned security, the

Re: Hijackers' e-mails were unencrypted

2001-10-03 Thread Ariel Waissbein
It seems reasonable to me that the plane attacks have been planed for years and not in the last minutes. So that there is probably no need to send mesages between parties in the latest moments. Maybe only a sign like the chalk mark in the pavement from Hanssen's case, or a simple orangutan

dejavu, Re: Hijackers' e-mails were unencrypted

2001-10-03 Thread Ed Gerck
List: With all due respect to the need to vent our fears, may I remind this list that we have all seen this before (that is, governments trying to control crypto), from key-escrow to GAK, and we all know that it will not work -- and for many reasons. A main one IMO is that it is simply