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2004-11-20 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2004-11-20 4:57:44 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 LOL 'The computer was password protected' , ooh please .......

Posted by MacNails 2004-11-20 5:44:23 PM|| 2004-11-20 5:44:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The computer was password protected, and is now being examined by US intelligence officers. The light armored reconnaissance unit that discovered the safe house during a random check blew it up Thursday.

How are you like that Cowboys!

Posted by Shipman 2004-11-20 5:46:34 PM|| 2004-11-20 5:46:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh Oh!
Password was: Fatima

No, it was lettermein

No, wait it was (really) whatisthesoundofthelonelygoatherd

Posted by Shipman 2004-11-20 5:49:30 PM|| 2004-11-20 5:49:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The rats left in a hurry.Would like to see their faces when Zargawi asks where the lap top is and afterwards with that bullet in their skull.Maybe thier code is on the lap top.

Posted by crazyhorse 2004-11-20 5:51:43 PM|| 2004-11-20 5:51:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 password: Dudeweregettingadell

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-20 5:54:23 PM|| 2004-11-20 5:54:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "LOL 'The computer was password protected' , ooh please ......."

Well...you can scoff if you like. But, If they are using something like F-Secure's FileCrypto on the disk partitions, then it could be a significant impediment to accessing the contents.

But I'm sure you knew that, right?

-AR

Posted by Analog Roam 2004-11-20 6:47:05 PM|| 2004-11-20 6:47:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Note to AR: password-protected is not synonymous with encrypted (let alone 'strongly encrypted").

Few people truly understand such distinction. One may hope stressed and soon-to-be-corpse jihadis don't either.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-11-20 6:54:51 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2004-11-20 6:54:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The odds of these guys having password protected a laptop in a manner that we can't break are zero. Doesn't mean they ALL use "BINLADEN" or "KERRYEDWARDS"...ut just means we have good code people!

crazyhorse...whether THESE morons are stupid enough to go fess up to Zargawi or not, I think a lot of these boyos will soon adopt a new motto for their Jihad: "Fuck THIS!"

Posted by Justrand 2004-11-20 6:59:40 PM|| 2004-11-20 6:59:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Analog Roam >

FileCrypto uses well-known fast block cipher algorithms , namely Blowfish and 3DES (These algorithms work on chunks of specific sized data along with a secret key resulting in blocks of cipher text) . This does not make things secure , it makes things slower to crack but not 100% secure in this day and age . Now a home user would find it impossible to break , but maybe just maybe you could by networking up 1000's of computers to reduce time (as this is the main factor )or use the lastest super computers , which im sure the US government has hehe . Decryption is done by applying the reverse transformation to the block of ciphertext using the same key .

Interesting fact for you

In 1998, the RSA Challenge II contest was won by Electronic Frontier Foundation. They cracked DES in 56 hrs using a supercomputer.

In 1999, Distributed.net won Challenge III and cracked DES in 22 hrs.

Dedicated hardware can be built to crack DES much faster. For an investment of $1 million, DES can be cracked in less than an hour.

Look at the dates , that was years ago .

The issue with cracking 3DES is 'computing power' to break the 168-bit keys . Network up a few *cough* super computers who's sole purpose in 'life' is to churn Maths you sort of get the picture , it may take a while but it will be done .

As Justrand points out the odds of these guys having password protected / securely encrypted a laptop in a manner that we can't break are zero . I think for the most part , all that will be found on the jihadi computers is alot of porn and bill gates crap .

But I'm sure you knew that, right? MN .

Posted by MacNails 2004-11-20 9:03:03 PM|| 2004-11-20 9:03:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 It only takes a couple of minutes to get around a boot-up (BIOS) password if you know how.

Posted by Tom 2004-11-20 9:08:44 PM|| 2004-11-20 9:08:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 sooo , i revert to my previous statement

LOL 'The computer was password protected' , ooh please .......

Posted by MacNails 2004-11-20 9:09:53 PM|| 2004-11-20 9:09:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Interesting too see that the Red Cross is in full support of the Terrorists.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-11-20 9:24:23 PM|| 2004-11-20 9:24:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 OOooh and to have a look at the mind set of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and friends , one should read a book called 'An Evil Cradling' by Brian Keenan , hence my assumption that there will be alot of porn on it hehe (repressed twats that they are) . An absolutely facsinating read ifnot 'shocking ' . A must for any rantburger with time on their hands .

Posted by MacNails 2004-11-20 9:24:53 PM|| 2004-11-20 9:24:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 cd030225.iso
download it, burn it.
own any windoze box
Best of all --- its French.

Posted by 3dc 2004-11-20 10:54:15 PM|| 2004-11-20 10:54:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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