Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3103-1003420344-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:53:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 19610 invoked by uid 510); 18 Oct 2001 15:52:07 -0000 Received: from n9.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.59) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 18 Oct 2001 15:52:07 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3103-1003420344-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by n9.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Oct 2001 15:52:25 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 18 Oct 2001 15:52:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 39911 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2001 15:52:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 18 Oct 2001 15:52:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 18 Oct 2001 15:52:24 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id IAA14798 for iwar@onelist.com; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:52:24 -0700 Message-Id: <200110181552.IAA14798@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:52:23 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Experts:.No.Evidence.Bin.Laden.Tampered.with.Web] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Experts: No Evidence Bin Laden Tampered with Web By Elinor Mills Abreu, Security News Portal, 10/18/2001 <a href="http://www.securitynewsportal.com/article.php?sid=1973&mode=thread&order=0">http://www.securitynewsportal.com/article.php?sid=1973&mode=thread&order=0> Amid heightened concern about cyberterrorism, U.S. scientists said they have found no signs that Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network have used technology to hide secret messages on the Internet. Computer science researchers at the University of Michigan said they had written a program to detect messages hidden inside of photos on the Web, but had come up empty-handed. - "We've come up dry in our search," Peter Honeyman, scientific director of the University of Michigan's Center for Information Technology Integration, told Reuters on Tuesday. The researchers scrutinized more than 2 million images from popular Web sites like eBay auctions since April or June. They began their search following a report in USA Today in February that cited unidentified U.S. officials and experts saying bin Laden's associates were using a masking method called "steganography" to hide secret messages on their activities inside innocent-looking photos on the Web. Honeyman and graduate student Niels Provost used software that searches for images that appear to have been modified and that tries to guess the secret code needed to view the message -- if there is one. Unlike encryption technology, which scrambles messages so they cannot be read and changes their appearance, steganography hides messages in a way that is not easy to detect. The researchers are now searching for steganographic use on the discussion forum known as Usenet, Provost said. ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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