Surely this is an old case, old at least by newspaper standards. The condition had occurred in 2003 and i thought surely people have written about this but when i dug deeper, i saw that it hadnt been covered at all and the reason was that brian regan was arrested two weeks before 9 11 and he was convicted one month after the us invaded iraq so it was almost this story was kind of book ended bythese two major events. And it was sort of lowhanging fruit for me to go after. To rewind a little bit, your interest in going to this cryptology us, do you have a background in science writing so you were comfortable solving into it. As you get to the cryptology section, i think everyone except that hardcore cryptology us are going to say, let me get a cup of coffee, this is serious. Can you talk about what was your interest in cryptology before that . Were you working on something . I didnt really have a specific interest in cryptology. Im a science writer, i worked at Science Magazine for many
That was alan greenspan. Yes. Cspan where history unfolds daily. In 1979 cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Yudhijit talks about agent trying to sell to libya. Thank you all for coming out. I think what we will do. Judhijit can talk for first 20 to 25 minutes and image there would be questions particularly in the book and issues that the books have raised about more contemporary cases and so we can sort of spin off from there and so i guess where should we start, yudhijit, thank you for inviting me to do this. No, absolutely. Thanks to the Wilson Center where i was a fellow january through may 2015 when i was hard at work on this book so its very nice to be able to speak to all of you here at this great institution. Nick, has been a friend of mine, hes obviously a very accomplished journalist, im really glad that youre doing this, nick, with me, im delighted to talk with you about
At this great institution. Nick has been a great friend of mine and is an accomplished journalist. Im glad that you are doing this with me and delighted to talk about the buck. Lets get started. My first question is why dont you talk about how you found the story in this case and give us the back story of how you sort of ended up working on this project. I came across the case in 2009. His life story his name was dan olson and he told me about a variety of cases and most of them involved those that person prison gangs use them in his ten minute talk to me he described the case instead i worked on solving some of the code. I thought surely this is an old case and the conviction occurred in 2003 and i thought surely people have written about this but when i dug deeper i saw that it hadnt been covere had been d the reason is he was arrested two weeks before 9 11 after the u. S. Invaded iraq, so it was almost as if his story was book ended in these major events and it is a low hanging frui
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