RE: Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Yes, I've seen a fair number of Jihadists Web sites.  Many of them were
hosted by Everyone's Internet (ev1.net) out of Texas.

The murders of Daniel Pearl were busted by this Hotmail email message which
was sent from the IP address 216.236.222.43:

(See http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/08/world/main508294.shtml)

> "Hot News" <kidnapperguy () hotmail com> on 01/26/2002 11:00:01 AM
>
> To:    mmCE () pak gov pk, letters.herald () dawn com, info () paknews com,
>       editor () paknews com, nicolo () hk super net,
>       representations () media-scope com, majmedia () signet com sg,
>       ky168 () ms14 hinet net, blei () blei inet it, ppn-london () publicitas com,
>       ikon1 () emirates net ae, ppn-newyork () publicitas com,
>       fakhar () ptv com pk, editorjang () jang com pk, editornews () jang com pk,
>       abramowitz () washpost com, achenbachj () washpost com,
>       allenm () washpost com, chuck.babbington () washingtonpost com,
>       belmanf () washpost com, rajiv () washpost com, circulation () nytimes com,
>       letters () nytimes com, editorial () nytimes com,
>       executive-editor () nytimes com, managing-editor () nytimes com,
>       national () nytimes com, foreign () nytimes com, publisher () nytimes com,
>       president () nytimes com, letters () latimes com
> cc:    kidnapperguy () hotmail com
>
> Subject:    American CIA officer in our custody

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Towles [mailto:toddtowles () brookshires com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:02 PM
To: Richard M. Smith; FunSec [List]
Subject: RE: [funsec] Here's how to get on the NSA's radar screen

 
> Hi,
>
> Attached to the end of this message are email addresses of some of the 
> 9/11 hijackers, people who are alleged to be associated with Al Qaeda, 
> and contact email addresses for alleged jihadist Web sites.  These are 
> the type of email addresses that I suspect the NSA is looking for when 
> it is monitoring email traffic on the Internet in order to "connect 
> the dots".
>
> Richard M. Smith
> http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com

Richard, I fail to see why the Government would watch for e-mail addresses
of dead people, I am really. I would only assume from the very limit
activity that I had seens that we would change e-mail addresses so fast it
is stupid to have static searching list.

Have you ever looked at the "jihad" video sites that release videos to the
internet? They pack this vids on free anon file-sharing locations, edu
servers and hacked japanese servers. A lot of information is traded on
forums, etc...so scanning e-mails may only get part of the information you
need.

As you can tell from your list, most are free e-mail accounts. Why would
they not use them once or twice and then change? Seems like a security risk
to stay on the same one for too long....just my 2 cents anyways.
Maybe I am wrong...who knows.

-Todd
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