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US seizes Osama bin Laden's hard drives
The US Navy SEAL team that found and killed Osama bin Laden on Sunday have recovered a number of computer drives and disks, dubbed "the mother lode of intelligence" by one US official speaking to Politico.com. Intelligence operatives are now apparently sorting through the digital haul, but what might they find?
It all depends on whether or not bin Laden's data is encrypted, as modern encryption techniques are mathematically uncrackable if used correctly. Data encoded using the AES-256 encryption scheme would take longer than the age of the universe to crack, which is why the US National Security Agency (NSA) endorses it for protecting documents classified "Top Secret".
We don't know whether bin Laden or other al-Qaeda members used AES-256, but it's certainly possible. Last year the organisation supposedly published a magazine called Inspire that contained an article on using a piece of encryption software known as Asrar al-Mujahideen 2.0, which uses AES-256 along with other encryption methods.
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"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
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Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
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It's a quote from Clear and Present Danger. The young computer jock at Langley breaks the cipher before Jack Ryan gets out of the room.Crumple wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
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Gawdzilla wrote:It's a quote from Clear and Present Danger. The young computer jock at Langley breaks the cipher before Jack Ryan gets out of the room.Crumple wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
I understood it.
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Ian wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:It's a quote from Clear and Present Danger. The young computer jock at Langley breaks the cipher before Jack Ryan gets out of the room.Crumple wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
I understood it.
Good enough, then. 
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In this case you'd have to decide which wife...
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Brilliant. Refer to works of fiction when encountering real world problems. So simple isn't it? You can't go wrong?Ian wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:It's a quote from Clear and Present Danger. The young computer jock at Langley breaks the cipher before Jack Ryan gets out of the room.Crumple wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
I understood it.
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Beat me to it ...Bella Fortuna wrote:In this case you'd have to decide which wife...
... but probably not the one he reputedly used as a human shield.
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I read that that was a false claim.klr wrote:Beat me to it ...Bella Fortuna wrote:In this case you'd have to decide which wife...
... but probably not the one he reputedly used as a human shield.
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Gee, Wrinkle, you don't think that could have been based on a real event? I know Eugene Spafford would love the job of attacking those disks. He mentioned Clear and Present Danger in a seminar once. I thought I'd bust laughing when he said, "I still don't know what took him so long."Crumple wrote:Brilliant. Refer to works of fiction when encountering real world problems. So simple isn't it? You can't go wrong?Ian wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:It's a quote from Clear and Present Danger. The young computer jock at Langley breaks the cipher before Jack Ryan gets out of the room.Crumple wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
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Probably just full of porn anyway. I know he was a member on here for a while...
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Chuck Jones hasn't been on since Friday...Geoff wrote:Probably just full of porn anyway. I know he was a member on here for a while...
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
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Twoflower wrote:Chuck Jones hasn't been on since Friday...Geoff wrote:Probably just full of porn anyway. I know he was a member on here for a while...
Good point.
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Your not suggesting he was Bin Laden?Geoff wrote:Twoflower wrote:Chuck Jones hasn't been on since Friday...Geoff wrote:Probably just full of porn anyway. I know he was a member on here for a while...
Good point.
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