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NSA intercepts led to a terrorist conviction
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Wed Sep 9 23:17:07 2009
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:01:51 -0400
"Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online
NSA-Intercepted E-Mails Helped Convict Would-Be Bombers
The three men convicted in the United Kingdom on Monday of a plot to =20
bomb several transcontinental flights were prosecuted in part using =20
crucial e-mail correspondences intercepted by the U.S. National =20
Security Agency, according to Britain=92s Channel 4.
The e-mails, several of which have been reprinted by the BBC and other =20=
publications, contained coded messages, according to prosecutors. They =20=
were intercepted by the NSA in 2006 but were not included in evidence =20=
introduced in a first trial against the three last year.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/09/nsa-email/ has more.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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