At 11:01 AM 1/3/04 +0100, privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote:
If we put aside the probable and obvious cause for disrupting the air
traffic - namely, introduction of the permanent emergency state (in the
future 2-3% of all flights may be affected - small price for maintaining
the power), I wonder what are the logistics of injecting false information
into the snooping systems.
It sure looks Al Qaida et al have already figured this out. There just so
happens to be chatter indicative of a major attack before every major
holiday. This seems to lead to three possibilities:
a. AQ has worked out that it's cheaper and safer to disrupt life in the US
by chatter than by actually trying any attacks here, and disrupting
holidays is more fun.
b. There really have been attacks planned, but they've either been foiled
actively (e.g., the terrorists got arrested or shot or something before the
attack took place) or passively (e.g., the higher alert status, changes to
security procedures, etc., have made the terrorists postpone their attacks.
c. There really isn't much useful information about AQ plans in the
available intelligence, and what we're seeing is the intelligence
community's priors (in the Bayesian sense; their prior assumptions are
swamping the effects of their meager data).
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--John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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