Newsflash: Terrorists use "low tech tricks" to foil authorities
Oh no!
The Washington Post reports here that terrorists are using low tech, simple codeword transliteration to foil attempts to monitor them. No kidding. Dough becomes explosives, the hospital becomes jail, and ... you should get the picture.
Scared?
You should be. According to the article, in 2005 Andrew Rowe was sent to prison for 15 years because authorities felt they found a code book mapping Nokia phone model numbers to other "things." Presumably they had to do with terrorism, but nobody could figure out a specific plot, meaning his crime, other than a transliteration booklet, is unspecified.
Wait! If I say, I'd like a Nokia 6610, and that the Nokia N80 sucks, I can go to jail for 15 years?
Awesome!
So you didn't have the dough to help your cousin with the hospital bill? Guilty you are!
I guess it's high time sacrifice more freedoms for security, don't you think?
The Washington Post reports here that terrorists are using low tech, simple codeword transliteration to foil attempts to monitor them. No kidding. Dough becomes explosives, the hospital becomes jail, and ... you should get the picture.
Scared?
You should be. According to the article, in 2005 Andrew Rowe was sent to prison for 15 years because authorities felt they found a code book mapping Nokia phone model numbers to other "things." Presumably they had to do with terrorism, but nobody could figure out a specific plot, meaning his crime, other than a transliteration booklet, is unspecified.
Wait! If I say, I'd like a Nokia 6610, and that the Nokia N80 sucks, I can go to jail for 15 years?
Awesome!
So you didn't have the dough to help your cousin with the hospital bill? Guilty you are!
I guess it's high time sacrifice more freedoms for security, don't you think?
Labels: 9/11, drive-by journalism, nanny state, war on terror
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