[Cryptography] Pearl Harbor and Crypto

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 07:50:39 -0800 Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com>
wrote:
> Earlier in his career, Osama Bin Laden used (Iridum?) satphones for
> communications.
> 
> The intelligence agencies were outraged when the NYTimes wrote a
> story about the capabilities of these agencies to utilize satphones
> to track people.

According to Bamford's books, the NSA was showing off its
ability to track OBL using his phone communications to various
congressmen and press types in an effort to use that to lobby for a
higher budget, so the source of that leak was the NSA.

Perry
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