[Cryptography] Unencrypted SMS

Kevin W. Wall kevin.w.wall at gmail.com
Sat Nov 21 02:10:39 EST 2015


On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/20/2015 07:53 AM, Henry Baker wrote:
>> At 02:39 PM 11/18/2015, Alexis Wattel wrote:
>>> [The French] found a phone in a trash bin with a text message saying "we're on our way, we are starting".
>>
>
>
> Why do they think that was specifically about the attacks, in
> the sense of being certain enough to consider it admissible
> evidence?  It contains no information about the attacks.  It
> sounds just as much like somebody who just bought a new
> smartphone letting people know she's coming to a dinner party
> with a few friends, and then throwing away her obsolete old
> cell.  If there are no fingerprints on the phone, could it
> be because it's in the middle of November and Paris is cold
> enough that hands inside gloves are more comfortable?

I thought I had heard on the radio that the French law
enforcement had also found blueprint or some sort of
detailed layout of the concert hall on it saved as unencrypted
images. And between that and that they found it discarded
in a trash bin, they concluded that it belonged to one of the
terrorists.

-kevin
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