On: How Bin Laden Sent and Received Email

[JoachimSchipper]

Those are good points, but he could still have, at least, used something like TrueCrypt for his archives.

[troels → JoachimSchipper]

How do you know that CIA don't have a backdoor to TrueCrypt?

[eneveu → troels]

Who cares if the CIA has a backdoor? It's still better to encrypt his archives than using plaintext. The chance the CIA might have a backdoor is lower than the chance the CIA might decipher plaintext.

Of course, you'd have to use a non-networked computer for this, in case Truecrypt phones home...

[troels → eneveu]

Well, the article didn't say that they were archived in plain text. For what we know, it may have been encrypted with TrueCrypt, and it may be readable by CIA.