CNET's Emil Protalinski reports that Osama bin Laden did not encrypt the thousands of files stored in the Pakistani compound where he was killed, and "17 of the 6,000 documents have now been publicly released." (via @ioerror)

  • nosehat

    Or he did encrypt them, but there’s a secret back door in the scheme he used.  Either way, they’d say “Fancy that.  He didn’t encrypt them.”

    • http://profiles.google.com/joshuabardwell Joshua Bardwell

      Or the REAL encrypted documents are in a hidden partition, and these are just the fake ones to throw you off the trail.

  • http://twitter.com/memefilter meme filter

    The CIA trained this guy?   They’re not half as sharp as the movies they pay for make them out to be.

    • trent1492

       No they did not train this guy. That is a myth.

    • http://imcravingpresidency.tumblr.com/ SedanChair

      Well he did manage to use a single strike to drag us in to interminably escalating war and occupation, turning us against one another in a police state without end and accomplishing his every objective.

      On the whole, I’d say he was paying attention in class.

      • Tynam

         Well… on the one hand, bin Laden won completely on every possible level, accomplishing more than his wildest dreams.

        On the other hand, that’s not because he was smart.  It was because we’re stupid, and he knew it.  With essentially every politician and senior official in the US or UK helping him, he’d have had to be *really* inept to lose.

  • kjh

    17 out of 6000?  17 per year?  At that rate they’ll all be released by, lets see, about 350 years.