Terrorist mastermind didn't encrypt?
US and Pakistani authorities say they have recovered large amounts of paper and electronic documentation from the home of alleged September 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Curious that such a man wouldn't think to encrypt anything. Compare and contrast with the post-September hysteria about terrorists and crypto.
Authorities recovered a huge amount of information about al-Qaeda at the house in Pakistan where Mohammed and two others were arrested early on Saturday, a senior law enforcement official said yesterday. Recovered at the home in Rawalpindi were computers, disks, cell phones and documents. Authorities believe the materials will provide names, locations and potential terrorist plots of al-Qaeda cells in the United States and around the world. Mohammed also was believed by US officials to have details about the group's finances. - AP, CIA, FBI dig through computers.