[iwar] [fc:"Stenography".threat...]

From: Fred Cohen (fc@all.net)
Date: 2001-10-17 21:36:18


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Subject: [iwar] [fc:"Stenography".threat...]
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Time for a little humor.  We have been looking at the wrong problem. 
Instead of worrying about steganography, we should have worried about
stenography. 

This excerpt from an e-mail from the Association for Computing Machinery:


"Is Net Rife With Hidden Code?"
Experts say Al-Qaida terrorists likely used online stenography to
secretly send messages to one another.  Unlike cryptography,
stenography is an attempt to make private messages undetectable
instead of indecipherable.  Recently, government investigators in ...
<a href="http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1017w.html#item3">http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1017w.html#item3>

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