As for the cell phone, during 9/11 no one's cell  phone worked in this
area, the network was overwhelmed. Wendy ended up going to a coworkers
house in Maryland and emailing me. In spite of everything that
happened that day, email was completely reliable.

larry

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 17:13:36 -0400, Jim Davis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> As for number one I follow general security guidelines on that one: always
> assume that your enemy is at least as intelligent as you are.  Not talking
> about something because it might "give them ideas" simply makes you
> unprepared for when they invariably hit upon the same idea.
>
> I heard the same reports: and still the only thing criminal, so far, is that
> the passport was faked (having a South African passport is legal - but
> having a fake one isn't).  Her circumstances were certainly suspicious and
> her arrest was completely warranted - but she hasn't yet been
> convicted/charged with anything else (as far as I've seen).
>
> (As an aside $7,000 is a lot of money, but not an enormous amount.  Illegal
> aliens often, since they can't open accounts, often carry all of their money
> on them.)
>
> Lastly you might want to reconsider your cell-phone option: during an
> emergency it'll be nearly impossible to get a call through.  If you're that
> close you might want to consider investing in a good set of walkie-talkies.
> The better ones have ranges of several miles and pretty good voice quality
> and the really good ones can even be paired using encryption keys.
> Satellite phones are, in theory, the best way to go, but they're flaky, huge
> and enormously expensive.
>
> Jim Davis
>
> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 4:48 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Look Out New York!!
>
> 1. This was part of the plot from Threat Matrix, shown about a year
> back or so. Yes, we tell the terrorists how best to defeat us.
> 2. The reports I heard on TV said she had a one way ticket to NY, 7k
> in cash and a South African passport.
> 3. As I said before, I do expect an attack in NY and I fear it more
> than ever. I'm now working 3 blocks (short blocks) from the Garden.
> I'm walking to work daily with my passport as picture ID. I'm about to
> transfer the HoF phone number to a cell phone so I can keep in touch
> no matter what.
>
>
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