WorldNetDaily reports WTC-Pentagon terrorists used encryption

[Bram Cohen]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:

> http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/21/2220202
> 
>     WorldNetDaily Reports WTC Terrorists Used Encryption
>     posted by admin on Friday September 21, @05:17PM
> 
>     There must be something about encryption and terrorists in
>     the same graf that makes levelheaded journalists go nutty. Just take a
>     compelling -- if only because it's so strange -- article posted
>     Thursday on the conservative WorldNetDaily news site. It claims,
>     implausibly, that Osama bin Laden "has the NSA beat on the employment
>     front, hiring the best computer experts on the market."

For those unfamiliar with it, WorldNetDaily has about the same
journalistic standards as the national enquirer. The often flat-out make
stuff up.

-Bram Cohen

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
                                        -- John Maynard Keynes




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