Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3873-1005747565-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 14 Nov 2001 06:21:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3258 invoked by uid 510); 14 Nov 2001 14:18:15 -0000 Received: from n22.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.72) by all.net with SMTP; 14 Nov 2001 14:18:15 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3873-1005747565-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [10.1.1.221] by n22.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Nov 2001 14:19:26 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 14 Nov 2001 14:19:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 93017 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2001 14:19:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Nov 2001 14:19:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Nov 2001 14:19:24 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fAEEK6031218 for iwar@onelist.com; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 06:20:06 -0800 Message-Id: <200111141420.fAEEK6031218@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 06:20:06 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Is.Osama.using.SMS.to.brief.his.sleeper.agents?] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:47:10 -0000 From: <a href="mailto:garry.sutcliffe@attws.com?Subject=Re:%20[nyectf]%20Digest%20Number%20152%2526In-Reply-To=%2526lt;1005741849.239.73085.m12@yahoogroups.com">garry.sutcliffe@attws.com</a> Subject: Cellular SMS terror tool <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/121101/detNAT21.asp">http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/121101/detNAT21.asp> Is Osama using SMS to brief his sleeper agents? Saurabh Shukla (New Delhi, November 11) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- "STR AT 8...TD" may look like a cryptic text from the language of the unwired world - Short Message Service (SMS) text - but in simple English it means: strike at 8 today. Probably a signal from a terrorist outfit to its operative, out on a mission of destruction. A few days back a number of cellphones in India received an SMS from Osama Bin Laden - the sender could not be traced despite complaints from cellphone subscribers. But intelligence inputs on messages like these have set the alarm bells ringing for the security apparatus. Flummoxed by this new potential terror tool, being used by terrorists to communicate with their handlers and even sleeper cells, the government has now woken up to this new threat. The Hindustan Times has learnt that following an assessment by the Cabinet Secretariat, the Department of Telecommunications has asked all cellular companies to get back to them by November 15 with a solution for setting up a mechanism to monitor SMS. Officials of cellular companies say there is a strong possibility that SMS can be used by anti-socials. "The Government has asked us to suggest a mechanism for SMS monitoring. Though we are not legally bound to provide a monitoring system, but in national interest we will do what we can to help the government," said a senior official of a cellphone company. The SMS scare has got credence following the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US where the FBI is also probing this link. Intelligence sources say there are credible reports that some of the groups like the Al-Qaeda, Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba have now switched to the SMS messaging to reach out to their operatives. Though cellular service is not provided in Jammu and Kashmir, the SMS can be used through the Net for the cellphones in any part of the world without being detected. What seems to have made it popular is that it is difficult to monitor an SMS and even the security agencies in the West have found it difficult to trace the links. SMS works on a signalling link that means that signals are transmitted from a cellphone to the cellular operator's automatic SMS centre (SMSC). The SMSC then dials the SMS's destination number in any part of the world and then puts the message in the queue. Experts feel that the government will have to issue instructions to put a monitoring device on each SMS centre which may take time. But till then a possible solution could be to bar SMS in certain sensitive countries ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Universal Inkjet Refill Kit $29.95 Refill any ink cartridge for less! 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