How bin
laden e-mailed without being detected
How bin
laden would message with no digital fingerprints
Despite having
no internet access in his hideout,osama bin laden was a prolific email writer who
built a painstaking system that kept him one step ahead of the u.s
gov’s best eavesdroppers.here’s how counterterrorism officials believe
bin laden managed to stay in touch with out leaving any digital finger prints.
Laden would
type a message on his computer without an internet connection,then save it using a thumb-sized
flash drive .
He then
passed it to a trusted courier,who would
head for a distant internet café.
There ,the
courier would plug the memory drive into the computer ,copy bin laden ‘s
message into an email and send it.
The courier
would then copy any incoming mail to a drive and return to the compound for bin
laden to read offline.
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