IP: Strikes may have been planned online

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:21:22 -0700
> From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari () OLTECO com>
> Subject: Strikes may have been planned online
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> To: farber () cis upenn edu
>
>
>         "There's an easy way for bad guys to conspire, and it's called the
>         Internet, " said Kevin Mandia, director of forensics for the
>         computer security firm Foundstone Inc. Mandia said he had been
>         asked by federal authorities to help with their investigation..."
>
>         Somewhat illogically [ to say the least djf] this article (below) 
> skips from the use of
>         the Internet and web-based email at libraries and cybercafes to
>         encrypted messages and so on...
>
> Strikes may have been planned online
>
> Investigators looking for traces of terrorists' Internet use
> Mark Martin, Verne Kopytoff, Chronicle Staff Writers
> Thursday, September 20, 2001
> ©2001 San Francisco Chronicle
>
> URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/09/20/MN181399.DTL
>
> Federal authorities scouring the country for clues in the wake of
> last week's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are
> focusing on what terrorism experts say is the perfect place to plan a
> deadly strike in secret: the Internet.
>
> The FBI this week subpoenaed computer records from at least two East
> Coast public libraries and has contacted several popular e-mail
> services, such as Microsoft Hotmail and Yahoo, in an effort to track
> communications that preceded the disasters, library officials and
> business executives confirmed. Investigators believe the Internet was
> used to plan the attacks, a computer security expert who works with
> the FBI said.
>
> "There's an easy way for bad guys to conspire, and it's called the
> Internet, " said Kevin Mandia, director of forensics for the computer
> security firm Foundstone Inc. Mandia said he had been asked by
> federal authorities to help with their investigation.
>
> In the week after the deadliest terrorist attack against Americans
> ever, federal investigators descended on public libraries in Fairfax,
> Va., and Hollywood, Fla., where they believe some of their suspects
> logged on to computer terminals open to the public.



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