Stego spy terrorist scare

Jay D. Dyson jdyson at treachery.net
Wed Sep 26 14:10:40 EDT 2001


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On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:

> > where unnamed spies were doing the same thing?  Given that these
> > rumours stick around more or less forever once started, and that the
> > stego-porn story seems to be no more than a rumour, could it just be a
> > mutation of the same story?
> 
> This year's buzz over bin Laden & co using stego seems to stem from this
> article, citing unnamed intel sources, in USA Today in June: 
> http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-02-05-binladen.htm

	The story is like Markoff's tale of Mitnick breaking into NORAD. 
Though totally false and repeatedly discounted as such, it still rears its
ugly head every six months or so.  

	Perhaps the best answer to this claim would be a distributed
computing project that runs stegdetect and similar utilities against
participants' porn collections.  Understanding the Way of the Geek, such a
porn sampling would undoubtedly be vast, if not definitive.  And Lordy,
wouldn't it make for sensational headlines? 

	Porn, Patriotism and [Cypher]Punks.  It's what makes America
GREAT, I tell you.

- -Jay

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