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RE: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:22:18 -0500
Yes, I've seen a fair number of Jihadists Web sites. Many of them were hosted by Everyone's Internet (ev1.net) out of Texas. The murders of Daniel Pearl were busted by this Hotmail email message which was sent from the IP address 216.236.222.43: (See http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/08/world/main508294.shtml)
"Hot News" <kidnapperguy () hotmail com> on 01/26/2002 11:00:01 AM To: mmCE () pak gov pk, letters.herald () dawn com, info () paknews com, editor () paknews com, nicolo () hk super net, representations () media-scope com, majmedia () signet com sg, ky168 () ms14 hinet net, blei () blei inet it, ppn-london () publicitas com, ikon1 () emirates net ae, ppn-newyork () publicitas com, fakhar () ptv com pk, editorjang () jang com pk, editornews () jang com pk, abramowitz () washpost com, achenbachj () washpost com, allenm () washpost com, chuck.babbington () washingtonpost com, belmanf () washpost com, rajiv () washpost com, circulation () nytimes com, letters () nytimes com, editorial () nytimes com, executive-editor () nytimes com, managing-editor () nytimes com, national () nytimes com, foreign () nytimes com, publisher () nytimes com, president () nytimes com, letters () latimes com cc: kidnapperguy () hotmail com Subject: American CIA officer in our custody
Richard -----Original Message----- From: Todd Towles [mailto:toddtowles () brookshires com] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:02 PM To: Richard M. Smith; FunSec [List] Subject: RE: [funsec] Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen
Hi, Attached to the end of this message are email addresses of some of the 9/11 hijackers, people who are alleged to be associated with Al Qaeda, and contact email addresses for alleged jihadist Web sites. These are the type of email addresses that I suspect the NSA is looking for when it is monitoring email traffic on the Internet in order to "connect the dots". Richard M. Smith http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com
Richard, I fail to see why the Government would watch for e-mail addresses of dead people, I am really. I would only assume from the very limit activity that I had seens that we would change e-mail addresses so fast it is stupid to have static searching list. Have you ever looked at the "jihad" video sites that release videos to the internet? They pack this vids on free anon file-sharing locations, edu servers and hacked japanese servers. A lot of information is traded on forums, etc...so scanning e-mails may only get part of the information you need. As you can tell from your list, most are free e-mail accounts. Why would they not use them once or twice and then change? Seems like a security risk to stay on the same one for too long....just my 2 cents anyways. Maybe I am wrong...who knows. -Todd _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen Richard M. Smith (Jan 11)
- Re: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen David Ulevitch (Jan 11)
- Re: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Jan 12)
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- RE: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen Todd Towles (Jan 11)
- Re: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen Dave Killion (Jan 11)
- Re: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen Matthew Murphy (Jan 11)
- RE: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen Richard M. Smith (Jan 11)
- Re: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen Dave Killion (Jan 11)
- Re: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen Fergie (Jan 11)
- RE: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen Richard M. Smith (Jan 11)
- Re: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen Matthew Murphy (Jan 11)
- Re: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen Blue Boar (Jan 11)
- Re: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen Matthew Murphy (Jan 11)
- Re: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen Nick FitzGerald (Jan 11)
- RE: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen Richard M. Smith (Jan 11)