Osama's home movies

[applecorped]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110507/ap_on_re_us/us_bin_laden

"Newly released videos show Osama bin Laden watching himself on television and rehearsing for terrorist videos, revealing that even from the walled confines of his Pakistani hideout, he remained a media maestro who was eager to craft his own image for the cameras. The videos, released by U.S. intelligence officials Saturday, were offered as further proof that Navy SEALs killed the world's most wanted terrorist this week. But they also served to show bin Laden as vain, someone obsessed with his portrayal by the world's media.
One of the movies shows bin Laden, his unkempt beard streaked in gray, sitting on the floor, wrapped in a brown blanket and holding a remote control. He flipped back and forth between what appears to be live news coverage of himself."




I hear he is watching coverage of his own death now and finds it most unflattering.

 

[NoahFence]

Dude couldn't even spring for a flat-screen TV....

 

[applecorped]

He's a worse channel surfer than I am.

 

[commandlinegamer]

How handy that the Pentagon removed the sound from the videos; so much easier to make parodies.

 

[Undesired Walrus]

Aren't televisions banned under Bin Laden's flavour of Islam?

 

[triforcharity]

Aren't televisions banned under Bin Laden's flavour of Islam?

I am not sure, but I know that women getting an education was.

Now, here's the ironic part.

There was a painting on one of the walls outside his compound advertising....












Yep. You guessed it. A woman's college.

Talk about a slap in the face! I bet he didn't even know. Dumbass.

 

[Tricky]

I hear he is watching coverage of his own death now and finds it most unflattering.

Of course it's not flattering. It doesn't look the same with only one eye.

 

[Nosi]

Aren't televisions banned under Bin Laden's flavour of Islam?

If they play music or entertainment...or Oh My Allah, WOMEN! But if they are showing speeches or how-to terrorism vids, those are fine.

 

[Sir Robin Goodfellow]

Sounds like all he wanted was his own reality show.

 

[Sunstealer]

Who the hell video tapes themselves watching videos of themself?

 

[WildCat]

Who the hell video tapes themselves watching videos of themself?

A psychopath megalomaniac, that's who.

 

[Bilbo]

It doesn't look the same with only one eye.

As a person who has been shot in the eye, (crossman bb gun, yes blind) nothing ever looks the same...but I never get that pesky double vision when imbibing.

 

[Undesired Walrus]

Who the hell video tapes themselves watching videos of themself?

He had one eye (No pun intended) on what the later scenes of the Bin Laden Downfall movie would be about.

Quite King Lear-esc.

 

[Pardalis]

Aren't televisions banned under Bin Laden's flavour of Islam?

Have you ever seen a fundamentalist be consistent?

 

[Undesired Walrus]

I'm still looking forward to the CIA finding 'Burka babes 12' on Osama's hard drive.

 

[dtugg]

If the US Government gains any useful intel from the compound, Osama was a *********** moron. It is trivial to make information unaccessible to anyone who doesn't have the password using free software available on the Internet. As in, even the NSA couldn't get it no matter how many super smart code breakers they have or how powerful their supercomputers are.

 

[WildCat]

If the US Government gains any useful intel from the compound, Osama was a *********** moron. It is trivial to make information unaccessible to anyone who doesn't have the password using free software available on the Internet. As in, even the NSA couldn't get it no matter how many super smart code breakers they have or how powerful their supercomputers are.

Who do you think is creating all that free software?

 

[dtugg]

Who do you think is creating all that free software?

I know you're joking but lots of people really do believe that the NSA has backdoors in encryption algorithms, namely AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). This is unlikely to the extreme for at least two reasons. First, the code is available to anyone who wants it. So many cryptographers who are not affiliated with the US government have looked at it. They have found no significant weaknesses in ten years. Second, if they did leave a backdoor, somebody else could find it and instantly compromise top secret information.

 

[geni]

If the US Government gains any useful intel from the compound, Osama was a *********** moron. It is trivial to make information unaccessible to anyone who doesn't have the password using free software available on the Internet. As in, even the NSA couldn't get it no matter how many super smart code breakers they have or how powerful their supercomputers are.

The first problem is creating a passworld you can actualy remeber that can't be broken by brute force.

The other problem is that it's triesome so you start encrpting only the most important stuff and the less significant stuff grows more significant as it's size increases.

 

[geni]

I know you're joking but lots of people really do believe that the NSA has backdoors in encryption algorithms, namely AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). This is unlikely to the extreme for at least two reasons. First, the code is available to anyone who wants it. So many cryptographers who are not affiliated with the US government have looked at it. They have found no significant weaknesses in ten years. Second, if they did leave a backdoor, somebody else could find it and instantly compromise top secret information.

There are theoretical ways of putting pretty secure backdoors into encryption schemes (the Clipper chip was meant to be this but failed).

Nothing up my sleeve numbers are meant to prevent some of the more dirrect aproaches.