[Cryptography] russian spies using steganography?

[Rui Paulo]

On Sun, 2016-05-08 at 20:57 -0700, Henry Baker wrote:
> The FBI has had a number of money-laundering stings which involved
> setting up fake banks around the world.  I believe that NPR recently
> talked about one such operation.  These kinds of operations only work
> if there are already a lot of other shady operators for the FBI to
> hide among.

It was not the FBI, it was the DEA and the IRS.  The NPR episode aired
recently, but it was a re-broadcast of a 2012 episode of Planet Money:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/03/09/469674457/episode-418-how-
the-government-set-up-a-fake-bank-to-launder-drug-money

So, yeah, we need to start thinking about the capability of any
government agency to go undercover, not just the FBI/CIA.

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Rui Paulo