http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/03/national/03WEST.html?todaysheadlines=pagewanted=print
October 3, 2001
Plan to Expand U.S. Powers Alarming Some in Colorado
By TIMOTHY EGAN
OLORADO SPRINGS, Oct. 2 - The people who live under the formidable jaw of
Pikes Peak like their churches, houses and
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20011001/3496196s.htm
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Hijackers' e-mails sifted for clues Computer messages were sent uncoded
By Kevin Johnson
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON -- Federal authorities believe that some of the 19 hijackers
involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were using
At 11:41 AM 10/2/2001, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 07:23 PM 10/02/2001 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
Or integrate some computing power into those IBM thingies, and use
remotely keyed encryption. Enough power is available through USB so that
you don't have to end up with battery power.
Sounds like
[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
From today's issue of Edupage:
...
ANTI-TERRORISM BILL HITS SNAG ON THE HILL
The Senate is holding up the progress of the anti-terrorism
legislation proposed by the Bush administration due to concerns
over language in the bill that would give intelligence agencies,
including the CIA, access to
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
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
Rick Smith at Secure Computing wrote:
At 11:41 AM 10/2/2001, Bill Stewart wrote:
Sounds like you're starting to reinvent the I-Button.
(Dallas semiconductor's product - uses a small computer chip
and an infrared link attached to a watch battery.)
Or the iKey which is pretty much exactly
OCTOBER 03, 22:18 EDT
Senators Agree on Anti-Terror Bill
By JESSE J. HOLLAND
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Democrats and the Bush administration reached
agreement Wednesday on a package of new police powers to combat
terrorism. A
House committee sent its own
