Correlation ≠ causation "Whatever the reason, Schneier says, al-Qaida's new encryption program won't necessarily keep communications secret, and the only way t

Correlation ≠ causation "Whatever the reason, Schneier says, al-Qaida's new encryption program won't necessarily keep communications secret, and the only way to ensure that nothing gets picked up is to not send anything electronically. Osama bin Laden understood that. That's why he ended up resorting to couriers." That basically admits the reality of the situation. They knew all along that the NSA and so on was watching/listening. It is why Osama used couriers. I highly suspect that the answer is the obvious one: Any idiot knows not to invent your own crypto algorithms in isolation. They moved from homebrew crypto to modern, widely used standards. This is correcting a technical error they made, nothing more. To be honest, if anything, this proves how inept the NSA is that they couldn't even break the homebrew crypto in a meaningful way to provide useful intelligence.