[funsec] London Airplane Bomb Plotters Used eBay to Raise Funds

[Richard M. Smith]

I agree that the eBay part of the story looks like a yawner, but everyone
knows who eBay is.  OTOH, the computer evidence which is hinted at in the
ABC News sotry is much more interesting.  Maybe much of the plot can be
reconstructed from computer records on home PCs.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Loe [mailto:knobdy at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:50 PM
To: Richard M. Smith
Cc: funsec at linuxbox.org
Subject: Re: [funsec] London Airplane Bomb Plotters Used eBay to Raise Funds

I'm trying to figure out what makes this "news". So they did something
to make money to fund their plot - big deal. Its only news if they
were using ebay to sell illegal things to raise funds, or swindling
customers or something  - otherwise, wgaf. I would assume that any
terrorist cell has to work to make money to fund their plots unless
they're just given money by their oil-owning backers.

On 10/12/06, Richard M. Smith <rms at bsf-llc.com> wrote:
> It's time to ban eBay and Google as terror attack tools.
>
> Richard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org] On
> Behalf Of Fergie
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:28 PM
> To: funsec at linuxbox.org
> Subject: [funsec] London Airplane Bomb Plotters Used eBay to Raise Funds
>
> Via ABC News' "The Blotter".
>
> [snip]
>
> The British terror cell that allegedly plotted to blow up flights from
> London to the U.S. helped finance the operation by buying and selling
> items on eBay, according to an intelligence report obtained by ABC News.