FBI says that terrorists did not use encryption (fwd)

[Adam Back]

It seems rather more likely that the failure is in identifying and
understanding the message.  The hardest part is to automatically
categorise the messages, not to collect them.  The texts would I
imagine have been guarded to the extent that their meaning was not
identifable by a machine, and perhaps not to a human either unless
other reasons for suspicion where there.

Adam

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 07:56:10AM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message <4397465227.20010920010229@owens-place.org.uk>, Owen Blacker
> <owenfb@easynet.co.uk> writes
> 
> >>Which makes me wonder why Echelon didn't pick up the traffic.
> 
> Because I think it's now accepted that Echelon doesn't "pick up"
> anything. It's more of a search engine for that tiny subset of traffic
> acquired by the authorities. If the emails never went in, the search
> can't pick up the keywords.