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Re: Uncrackable Bin Laden Hard Drives

Post by Twoflower » Tue May 03, 2011 8:16 pm

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Geoff wrote:Probably just full of porn anyway. I know he was a member on here for a while...
Chuck Jones hasn't been on since Friday...

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Re: Uncrackable Bin Laden Hard Drives

Post by Geoff » Tue May 03, 2011 8:20 pm

Crumple wrote:
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Geoff wrote:Probably just full of porn anyway. I know he was a member on here for a while...
Chuck Jones hasn't been on since Friday...

Good point.
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Your not suggesting he was Bin Laden? :fp:
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Re: Uncrackable Bin Laden Hard Drives

Post by Animavore » Tue May 03, 2011 9:33 pm

"the mother lode of intelligence"
:what: Is this a pun or an ironic sentence, or what?
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Re: Uncrackable Bin Laden Hard Drives

Post by kiki5711 » Tue May 03, 2011 9:38 pm

they can ask Garcia from Criminal Minds, she can crack any code! And she's beautiful!
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Re: Uncrackable Bin Laden Hard Drives

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed May 04, 2011 4:20 am

Animavore wrote:
"the mother lode of intelligence"
:what: Is this a pun or an ironic sentence, or what?
Better to ask the Mr. Fish who just nibbled into the part of Bin Ladens brain containing the passwords? :tup:
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Re: Uncrackable Bin Laden Hard Drives

Post by Svartalf » Wed May 04, 2011 5:36 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
depending on how religious the guy was, I'd think more of reference to surah and verse of key slogans, or worse, hadith references...

Not to mention that any dates will have to be in Arab qalendar... I sure hope Langley's got experts that went to a wahhabi madrassa and are used to computing things according to the arabic system.
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Re: Uncrackable Bin Laden Hard Drives

Post by Feck » Wed May 04, 2011 5:38 pm

They should just torture Bin Laden ..after all ,torture gets you good answers ......Oh yeah, Fail !
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Re: Uncrackable Bin Laden Hard Drives

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed May 04, 2011 5:39 pm

Svartalf wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
depending on how religious the guy was, I'd think more of reference to surah and verse of key slogans, or worse, hadith references...
That was Clancey's point. People use things they can remember. Things from their life. Jack Ryan's pin number was his birthday, in reverse. With identity theft comes a window for people to steal more than just your good name.
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Re: Uncrackable Bin Laden Hard Drives

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed May 04, 2011 5:43 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:
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Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
depending on how religious the guy was, I'd think more of reference to surah and verse of key slogans, or worse, hadith references...
That was Clancey's point. People use things they can remember. Things from their life. Jack Ryan's pin number was his birthday, in reverse. With identity theft comes a window for people to steal more than just your good name.
I don't and I'm not currently running a militant set up. :smoke:
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Re: Uncrackable Bin Laden Hard Drives

Post by Svartalf » Wed May 04, 2011 5:48 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:
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Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
depending on how religious the guy was, I'd think more of reference to surah and verse of key slogans, or worse, hadith references...
That was Clancey's point. People use things they can remember. Things from their life. Jack Ryan's pin number was his birthday, in reverse. With identity theft comes a window for people to steal more than just your good name.
Yeah, but just imagine if he used whole surahs as encryption keys... not as bad as single use books the same length as the text, but still...
Can analogues to Babbage's solution of Vigenère still be used in modern cryptography, or is it an either/or thing between knowing the exact key and doing the brute force thing that would last longer than the universe has been there unless we manage to switch to optic computers in the meantime?
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Re: Uncrackable Bin Laden Hard Drives

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed May 04, 2011 6:08 pm

Like I said elsewhere, Eugene Spafford will be just one of the guys lined up for a crack at those drives.
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