May 5, 2011

'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound

SlashDot - funny-facebook-screenshot-profile-osama-bin-laden-status-update-commets" The raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan Sunday also turned up an 'intelligence harvest' of computer-based data that was described by an anonymous government source as 'the motherlode of intelligence.'

The data is being sifted through at a secret site in Afghanistan. An unnamed official was quoted by Politico as saying: 'Hundreds of people are going through it now.

It's going to be great even if only 10 percent of it is actionable. They cleaned it out.

Can you imagine what's on Osama bin Laden's hard drive?'"