How bin Laden Emailed Without Being Detected

Osama bin Laden built a painstaking email system that kept him one step ahead of the US government's best eavesdroppers despite having no Internet access in his hideout. Now, intelligence officials are mining through the archives he left behind. (May 12)

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[TheBestCommenterEVER]

bin laden never heard of proxy's

[agt155]

He didn't even have widescreen.

[rtsjoe]

@TheBestCommenterEVER The American government owns most proxies.

[BlindSoul96]

if bin laden had internet he would be wankin on pornhub every day

[leloodallasmultipass]

@drone713 do you seriously believe that emails sent among al q members are not trackable? do you think that the C1A needs a physical address to keep tabs on someone?

I don't know how you came to the conclusion that I would think the things that you are arguing against but I feel like you must be talking to someone else. You call me stupid for things that aren't even my point of view. I don't have any idea what you are so out of control about.

[leloodallasmultipass]

@drone713 uhhh... you are making some weird assumptions.

Let me lay this out for you: Bin Laden didn't email from his house. Why? because emails would be tracked from there. right? so he sent couriers to local e-cafes to send the emails for him. right? so if the emails are trackable and they are originating from e-cafes, it could stand to reason that SOMEONE could be tracking them and find the couriers. then they track the COURIERS themselves. the white vans and bmx tricks are just jokes.

[drone713]

@leloodallasmultipass Can you explain how Bin Laden's "couriers" would be being chased by "white vans"? No one knew where the fuck Bin Laden was...you know, that whole "missing for 10 years" thing? It's amazing how stupid you are. Bin Laden used emails to communicate with OTHER AL QAEDA MEMBERS. We didn't have any "shit" to "follow up on" because we weren't receiving anything. You seriously think Bin Laden would just shoot Obama an email every now and again to make his point? You're an idiot.

[leloodallasmultipass]

@drone713 I might be, but what are you talking about?

[sh9683]

@stargazer279 thats my point, ok he is real but still the government like you said has found several people saying it was bin laden, thats why i say he might not even be real,

[stargazer279]

@sh9683 Then can you explain why a newspaper in one of the Arabic country mentioned his death and funerals in december 2001 ? Osama Bin Laden died in 2001, AP is spreading propaganda AP and all the other agencies and the US government made him die twice, I wonder when AP will make Osama die a third time.

[sh9683]

if osama bin laden was real, if he was real and if he wasn't killed 10 years ago by mass bombing, he got away because american soldiers ARE stupid thats why!

[leucomaofthecornea]

In a nutshell: He had emails on usb, a guy went to a cyber-caffe, and he has well adapted to how US government hunts them.

There is no date on emails because Al-Qaeda has changed emails. <3