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Crypto Raid
In a coincidence with the Biham/Shamir smart card attack,
AP reports October 20 on an Israeli raid of News Datacom
Research for $150 million tax fraud, allegedly because
locally developed crypto products were smuggled out of
the country. News Datacom develops and markets encryption
systems for pay-TV based on Shamir's work, and he is a
part-owner.
Recall that Markoff's story on DFA cited Bahim's
experience with pirate-TV and smart-card tampering.
FiTi ran stories last May about the company's financial
derring-do, which we've placed with the AP report at:
http://jya.com/keylok.txt
We've also put the Biham/Shamir DFA post and NYT article
at:
http://jya.com/dfa.htm