Foreigners: are your emails coded?
On the tube into work this morning I caught sight of a newspaper story about the Monday morning raid on Finsbury Park mosque which mentioned below the title “Cops in 2am raid after MI5 trace 3,000 coded emails”.
I later ran a google news search and only the Mirror story is returned.
So why did no other sources picked up on the coded (by which they
imply terror-instruction) email angle that the Mirror lead with?
A Special Branch source told the Daily Mirror: “Since September 11 politicians and others have been asking why we were not raiding the Finsbury Park mosque.
“The answer is the security services have been eavesdropping
communications passing through there.“There have been at least 3,000 emails in at least eight languages, and other communications coming in and out from the mosque computers and linking countries across the Muslim world.”
So essentially: Muslims using Internet connected PCs in a mosque for some unspecified amount of time (possibly over a year) have sent and received several thousand emails from muslim countries in languages other than english.
Hmmm. I guess by “coded” the Mirror was referring to the fact that they probably contained non-lower ASCII codes and may have had to be based64 encoded to be transmitted over a 7-bit medium.
Chilling.
