On Mar 4, 2004, at 10:49, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 10:30 PM 3/3/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:<http://nytimes.com/2004/03/04/international/europe/04PHON.html? hp=&pagewanted=print&position=>
The New York Times
March 4, 2004
How Tiny Swiss Cellphone Chips Helped Track Global Terror Web
And that, boys and girls, is what traffic analysis is about. You don't need to know the surname of the endpoint of a communication to know that said endpoint is interesting.
Also, of course, Al's mistake of thinking that the handset is the endpoint, instead of the SIM.
.. And, leaving a plaintext telephone directory of the whole organization
lying around in his house probably wasn't the smartest thing either.
