Bin Laden's Sneakernet Email System 240
Hugh Pickens writes "Osama bin Laden was a prolific writer who put together a painstaking email system that thwarted the US government's best eavesdroppers despite having no Internet access in his hideout. Holed up in his walled compound in northeast Pakistan with no phone or Internet capabilities, bin Laden would type a message on his computer, save it using a thumb-sized flash drive that he passed to a trusted courier, who would head for a distant Internet cafe. At that location, the courier would plug the drive into a computer, copy bin Laden's message into an email and send it. Intelligence officials are wading through thousands of the email exchanges after around 100 flash drives were seized from the compound by US Navy Seals."
Why didn't he just use (Score:5, Funny)
RTFA (Score:3, Funny)
They called it painstaking because the courier was forced to use hotmail to forward the emails.
This explains it then.. (Score:4, Funny)
Totally explains why he took forever to accept FB friend requests.
Such an intricate plan... (Score:5, Funny)
"Hey, are you headed to the Internet cafe? Could you send this for me? I'd love to go myself, but you know, the $25000000 bounty..."
"You ALWAYS use that excuse! 'I'd love to go to the grocery store, but my bounty...I'd love to go to the laundromat, but my bounty...'"
"Oh, and could you print out the latest Digg articles?"
"...fuck it, I'm calling the Americans."