http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/21/2220202 WorldNetDaily Reports WTC Terrorists Used Encryption posted by admin on Friday September 21, @05:17PM There must be something about encryption and terrorists in the same graf that makes levelheaded journalists go nutty. Just take a compelling -- if only because it's so strange -- article posted Thursday on the conservative WorldNetDaily news site. It claims, implausibly, that Osama bin Laden "has the NSA beat on the employment front, hiring the best computer experts on the market." One allegedly is Nabil Khan Kani, a Syrian living in Barcelona. Kani's supposedly the author of some data-hiding steganography products that have been giving U.S. spies fits. An excerpt: "Computer and terrorism experts suggest that the missing Syrian computer whiz was the author of the technology known as steganography... This technology enables users to bypass electronic monitoring by hiding messages randomly in seemingly innocent digital files, such as music files, those of the popular online marketplace eBay, pornographic files or even e-mail headers... U.S. intelligence has been unable to trace their authors and recipients in the three years since first detecting evidence of their existence in the files of the bin Laden organization. U.S. agencies now believe that the attacks in New York and Washington were coordinated through those encrypted electronic messages, which were opened by 'key' holders. They also believe that terrorists are in possession of all or part of the codes used by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the National Reconnaissance Office, Air Force Intelligence, Army Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, Marine Corps Intelligence and the intelligence offices of the State Department and Department of Energy." Watch for Sen. Judd "Anti-Crypto" Gregg to cite this report in a floor speech. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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