stego in the wild: bomb-making CDs

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Sun Dec 28 22:05:02 EST 2003


John Denker <jsd at av8n.com> writes:

>] Thursday 25 December 2003, 17:13 Makka Time, 14:13 GMT
>]
>] Saudis swoop on DIY bomb guide
>
>[...]
>
>I suspect there is a lot more to this story......

The story could apply to any one of hundreds (thousands?) of hacker/warez CDs
available off-the-shelf in the US.  Heck, it could apply to the Encyclopedia 
Britannica CD edition.  So I'd pick:

> 3) Also: as a rule, anything you do with computers generates
>   more headlines than doing the same thing with lower-tech methods.

because:

>] Saudis swoop on DIY bomb guide

sounds a lot better than:

>] Saudis swoop on Britannica vendors

Peter.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo at metzdowd.com



More information about the cryptography mailing list