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

[Ben Laurie]

Grant Bayley wrote:
> 
> > --- begin forwarded text
> >
> > Status:  U
> > From: "Julian Dibbell" <jmdibbell at home.com>
> > To: <nettime-l at bbs.thing.net>
> > Subject: <nettime> "Pirate Utopia," FEED, February 20, 2001
> > Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:37:20 -0500
> > Sender: nettime-l-request at bbs.thing.net
> > Reply-To: "Julian Dibbell" <jmdibbell at home.com>
> >
> > Key concepts: steganography, encryption, Osama bin Laden, intellectual
> > property, temporary autonomous zone, pirates.
> 
> It's a shame that Niels Provos, one of the main developers of open-source
> Steganography software at the moment wasn't able to detect a single piece
> of information hidden steganographically in a recent survey of two million
> images...  Sort of destroys the whole hype about the use of it by
> criminals.

He did only look for one particular encoding technique (at least, that
was true when we discussed it in April), so his failure to find anything
cannot be considered to be conclusive.

Cheers,

Ben.

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