Cipher al-qaeda hacked
British intelligence MI5 initiated a leak in the press of information about the successful hacking of the secret code of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda. To work on this task, a special team of hackers from MI5 and NSA specialists was organized at the headquarters in Menwith Hill in the north of England. Decryption took six months.
With this code, al-Qaeda leaders arrested in the UK exchanged messages with each other and also managed a network of agents.
The cipher was based on the replacement of letters on the table, known to the authors. As reported, the terrorists used religious tracts known to them by heart, and the messages used words in at least twenty different dialects of Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Yemen and Sudan.
According to MI5, the cipher is written by three people: Abu Qatada (Abu Qatada, bin Laden's right hand in Europe, is in Worcestershire prison), Abu Doha (Abu Doha, is in charge of recruiting new members in Europe, is in prison in London) and Abu Hamza (Abu Hamza, Belmarsh prison, is preparing for deportation to the United States).
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As is known since the Second World War, after hacking the enemy cipher, it is important not to open up. To do this, you have to methodically send your people to certain death - just to not greatly worsen the statistics of the enemy. The war actually turns into an intellectual battle, where everything is decided by radio interception, intelligence and cryptography, and the soldiers are sacrificed so that the enemy does not change the encryption keys.
In the case of counter-terrorism activities, the modern special services, apparently, also have to turn a blind eye to some of the terrorist attacks, just to maintain complete control over the communications of the terrorists.
If we proceed from this logic, now something has gone wrong, since they decided to convey information about the breaking of the cipher to the enemy.
With this code, al-Qaeda leaders arrested in the UK exchanged messages with each other and also managed a network of agents.
The cipher was based on the replacement of letters on the table, known to the authors. As reported, the terrorists used religious tracts known to them by heart, and the messages used words in at least twenty different dialects of Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Yemen and Sudan.
According to MI5, the cipher is written by three people: Abu Qatada (Abu Qatada, bin Laden's right hand in Europe, is in Worcestershire prison), Abu Doha (Abu Doha, is in charge of recruiting new members in Europe, is in prison in London) and Abu Hamza (Abu Hamza, Belmarsh prison, is preparing for deportation to the United States).
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As is known since the Second World War, after hacking the enemy cipher, it is important not to open up. To do this, you have to methodically send your people to certain death - just to not greatly worsen the statistics of the enemy. The war actually turns into an intellectual battle, where everything is decided by radio interception, intelligence and cryptography, and the soldiers are sacrificed so that the enemy does not change the encryption keys.
In the case of counter-terrorism activities, the modern special services, apparently, also have to turn a blind eye to some of the terrorist attacks, just to maintain complete control over the communications of the terrorists.
If we proceed from this logic, now something has gone wrong, since they decided to convey information about the breaking of the cipher to the enemy.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/76229/
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