Similarly, you could do (again) what the FBI did to the New Jersey
mobster Scarffo see story at this link:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46329,00.html
Woody
Randolph Fritz wrote:
>
> 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
