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Thread ID: 4162 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2002-12-23
2002-12-23 14:07 | User Profile
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Odigo says workers were warned of attack
By Yuval Dror
Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack.
Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two workers received the messages and immediately after the terror attack informed the company's management, which immediately contacted the Israeli security services, which brought in the FBI.
"I have no idea why the message was sent to these two workers, who don't know the sender. It may just have been someone who was joking and turned out they accidentally got it right. And I don't know if our information was useful in any of the arrests the FBI has made," said Macover. Odigo is a U.S.-based company whose headquarters are in New York, with offices in Herzliya.
As an instant messaging service, Odigo users are not limited to sending messages only to people on their "buddy" list, as is the case with ICQ, the other well-known Israeli instant messaging application.
Odigo usually zealously protects the privacy of its registered users, said Macover, but in this case the company took the initiative to provide the law enforcement services with the originating Internet Presence address of the message, so the FBI could track down the Internet Service Provider, and the actual sender of the original message.
2002-12-24 02:40 | User Profile
Man, is there a blackout on this information in the Land of Liberty? Nothing on it from the "major news" outlets. I checked at the barber shop which had CNN on. All they said was Bush had proof that Iraq hid some nukes in a potted plant and boy we're not sitting still for that. Then a feature story from a Walmart that says people just aren't spending enough and sinophiliac plutocrats might go hungry this year. Then it said that it's snowing in Oklahoma, which might be true because my business partner is in Tulsa and he told me the same thing this morning on the phone. Then my haircut was done, thank God, and I left, so if CNN said anything about the Odigo workers I missed it. But I'm sure CNN does the best it can.
2002-12-24 03:20 | User Profile
Originally posted by il ragno@Dec 23 2002, 08:07 ** as is the case with ICQ, the other well-known Israeli instant messaging application. **
ICQ is an Israeli-owned service ??
2002-12-24 03:27 | User Profile
Originally posted by Texas Dissident@Dec 24 2002, 03:20 ** ICQ is an Israeli-owned service ??**
Oh, yeah....
[url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/02/17/BU105835.DTL]http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...17/BU105835.DTL[/url]
AOL bought them shortly after this article was written in 1998 and the Israelis started working on Ondigo
2002-12-26 05:29 | User Profile
The story about the Odigo 9/11 message is very old news (not that it ever had much air time). How about an update about whatever became of this investigation? What is the actual text of the message? Whose IP was it traced to?
BTW, Odigo has offices in both Israel and NY. Their NY office is very close to the WTC.