Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1926-1000587127-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 18869 invoked by uid 510); 15 Sep 2001 20:52:27 -0000 Received: from n34.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.84) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 20:52:27 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1926-1000587127-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.55] by mk.egroups.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2001 20:52:08 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 15 Sep 2001 20:52:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 38205 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2001 20:02:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Sep 2001 20:02:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 20:02:18 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id NAA06285 for iwar@onelist.com; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:02:17 -0700 Message-Id: <200109152002.NAA06285@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:02:17 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Intelligence.technology.may.not.stop.terrorists] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Intelligence technology may not stop terrorists 17:21 13 September 01 Will Knight A key question arising from the terrorist atrocities that rocked the US on Tuesday is why the intelligence services failed to provide any prior warning. Some analysts believe that over-reliance on technology-based surveillance may have led to such a catastrophic lack of awareness. Erich Moechel, an Austrian journalist specialising in international intelligence, believes there has been a lack of investment in human intelligence work. "Over the last couple of years, they have been running in the wrong direction," Moechel told New Scientist. "They have concentrated too much on signals intelligence and not human intelligence. Terrorism is essentially low tech." However, Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert from St Andrews University in Scotland, says that infiltrating certain organisations with secret agents can be almost impossible in practice. "To get inside the head of an organisation you need people in place for a long time and that is not easy. Often you are born into them," he says. International eavesdropping Others analysts believe that even the best efforts of the intelligence services might not be enough, as the communications networks used to organise such deadly attacks may sometimes be impregnable. The US operates the most technologically sophisticated international surveillance network in the world. In co-operation with other western nations, it runs an international eavesdropping system known as "Echelon". A system of newly installed internet taps code-named Carnivore also gives US law enforcers the power to trawl email messages for information. But none of this gave any hint of the audacious and tragic events which destroyed the World Trade Center and killed many thousands of people. Even a ploy as simple as previously-agreed code words can effectively disable these huge data screening operations. The FBI believes that Middle Eastern terrorists are most likely to have been involved and Ranstorp says the communications methods employed by such organisations are designed to defy technological surveillance. "The groups do use encryption [which protects digital communications], but some of the most important information is relayed non-technologically, often carried by human couriers," he says ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Do you need to encrypt all your online transactions? Secure corporate intranets? Authenticate your Web sites? Whatever security your site needs, you'll find the perfect solution here! http://us.click.yahoo.com/wOMkGD/Q56CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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