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Re: WorldNetDaily reports WTC-Pentagon terrorists used encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bram Cohen)
Sat Sep 22 19:03:25 2001
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 09:29:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/21/2220202
>
> WorldNetDaily Reports WTC Terrorists Used Encryption
> posted by admin on Friday September 21, @05:17PM
>
> There must be something about encryption and terrorists in
> the same graf that makes levelheaded journalists go nutty. Just take a
> compelling -- if only because it's so strange -- article posted
> Thursday on the conservative WorldNetDaily news site. It claims,
> implausibly, that Osama bin Laden "has the NSA beat on the employment
> front, hiring the best computer experts on the market."
For those unfamiliar with it, WorldNetDaily has about the same
journalistic standards as the national enquirer. The often flat-out make
stuff up.
-Bram Cohen
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
-- John Maynard Keynes
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