On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:45:15PM -0700, Dennis J. Eberl wrote: > > This is the first reasonable response I have read. Randolf, how would you > crack bin Laden's security? > Well, to begin with, find out what languages his organization uses and find people who know them well. Then undertake some straight physical espionage. Steal his laptop if you can. (This will also force him to redistribute keys, by channels which perhaps can be traced.) Start gathering information on what type of cryptography the bin Laden organization (surely it has a name? why do we not know it?) uses. Go from there. Do a traffic analysis, if that's possible. Break his crypto. Traffic analysis, I would say, is probably one of the most effective tactics--since Afghanistan bans the internet, traffic near the time of a bin Laden organization activity is likely to stick out. And plain old spying is still very effective. In other words, plain old espionage grunt-work. Randolph
