Man who pleaded guilty to terrorism charges tried to hide data in a cufflink
One rule of hiding something is to put it somewhere no one would think to look.
In the case of admitted Islamic State member Samata Ullah, that meant hiding data in a cufflink.
Ullah, from Cardiff in Wales, was charged with six terrorism offenses in the United Kingdom in October, and, on Monday, pleaded guilty to several of them.
The 34-year-old man owned instruction manuals such as "Advances in Missile Guidance" and "Guided Missiles Fundamentals AFM 52-31." He also shot instructional videos from his bedroom on how other extremists could protect data and navigate the internet anonymously.
Ullah practiced what he preached, hiding data, including an extremist blog, in a Linux-operated USB stick designed to look like a cufflink. His goal, according to the prosecutor, was to store his blog in a "format that meant it could not be closed down or deleted by the authorities."
Guess that'll now be put to the test.
Colin is Mashable's US & World Reporter. He previously interned at Foreign Policy magazine and The American Prospect. Colin is a graduate from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. When he's not at Mashable, you can most likely find him eating or playing some kind of sport.
