<nettime> "Pirate Utopia," FEED, February 20, 2001

[Ariel Waissbein]

Hi to you all! A word on this thread. I think you are giving missleading
assertions. It's just a subtlety I'd like to mention.

Perhaps you should simply notice that getting a one-use-only webmail 
email account and sending the message "the bird is flying home" or any 
James  Bondish message like that to another one-time-use-only webmail
account is also steganography. You hide a message between millions
of messages within millions of accounts! 

It is impossible to browse and identify all those messages as dangerous. 
And that is because they aint. However, having a particular message,
photo, or any piece of digital information and trying to gain
information
from it is quite a different task. Here steganography as you speak could
enter the scene. My feeling is that there is no generical tool for 
handling all the sensible inf traveling through the web and that it's
construction should be dimmed (theoretically) impossible. However,
practical solutions to specific and well defined problems can and 
are devided daily. I hope you see my point.

regards,
Ariel Waissbein



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