Comments on: US doxes Bin Laden (always use encryption, kids) http://boingboing.net/2012/05/04/us-doxes-bin-laden-always-use.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: kjh http://boingboing.net/2012/05/04/us-doxes-bin-laden-always-use.html#comment-1415630 kjh Sat, 05 May 2012 23:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=158749#comment-1415630 17 out of 6000?  17 per year?  At that rate they'll all be released by, lets see, about 350 years. 17 out of 6000?  17 per year?  At that rate they’ll all be released by, lets see, about 350 years.

]]> By: Tynam http://boingboing.net/2012/05/04/us-doxes-bin-laden-always-use.html#comment-1415347 Tynam Sat, 05 May 2012 13:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=158749#comment-1415347  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.  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.

]]> By: SedanChair http://boingboing.net/2012/05/04/us-doxes-bin-laden-always-use.html#comment-1415155 SedanChair Sat, 05 May 2012 03:31:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=158749#comment-1415155 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. 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.

]]> By: trent1492 http://boingboing.net/2012/05/04/us-doxes-bin-laden-always-use.html#comment-1415140 trent1492 Sat, 05 May 2012 03:07:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=158749#comment-1415140  No they did not train this guy. That is a myth.  No they did not train this guy. That is a myth.

]]> By: meme filter http://boingboing.net/2012/05/04/us-doxes-bin-laden-always-use.html#comment-1415122 meme filter Sat, 05 May 2012 02:34:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=158749#comment-1415122 The CIA trained this guy?   They're not half as sharp as the movies they pay for make them out to be. The CIA trained this guy?   They’re not half as sharp as the movies they pay for make them out to be.

]]> By: Joshua Bardwell http://boingboing.net/2012/05/04/us-doxes-bin-laden-always-use.html#comment-1415068 Joshua Bardwell Sat, 05 May 2012 01:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=158749#comment-1415068 Or the REAL encrypted documents are in a hidden partition, and these are just the fake ones to throw you off the trail. Or the REAL encrypted documents are in a hidden partition, and these are just the fake ones to throw you off the trail.

]]> By: nosehat http://boingboing.net/2012/05/04/us-doxes-bin-laden-always-use.html#comment-1415038 nosehat Sat, 05 May 2012 00:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=158749#comment-1415038 Or he <i>did</i> 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." 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.”

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