Crypto Blamed for US terrorist attack - World Exclusive

[Bruce Tober]

In message <3B9F468A.27B03991@ccs.bbk.ac.uk>, Ken Brown
<k.brown@ccs.bbk.ac.uk> writes
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>I doubt if encryption is crossing their minds for a moment.  They have
>other things to do.

Unfortunately you're wrong. Or at least it's on much of the media's
mind. Just in case you've missed them, here are two urls:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/627390_asp.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-02-05-binladen.htm

>The Son of Star Wars gung-ho techies in the US military have egg on
>their faces. Expect less money to go to them & more to the FBI &
>immigration control.

We can but hope.

>Nobody will even pay attention to crypto.

Doin't count on it.

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