FC: ABC News says hijackers "may" have communicated using steganography

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Sun Oct 07 2001 - 19:34:03 PDT

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    Background on steganography:
    http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=steganography
    
    Be sure to look at the televised/video version of this ABC News report 
    (available at the link below) as well.
    
    -Declan
    
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    From: "Buzz LightYear" <bzzlgtyrat_private>
    To: declanat_private
    Subject: Crypto FUD from ABCnews
    Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 09:36:16 -0500
    
    ABCnews.com has a story and a streaming video segment concerning Osam Bin 
    Laden's use of Steganography.
    
    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/DailyNews/PRIMETIME_011004_steganography.html 
    (Link to video on page).
    
    My problem is in the video segment. The segment "demonstrates" the use of 
    steganography buy showing 3 examples: 1. The floor plan of an aircraft 
    hidden in an image of the Mona Lisa; 2. A satelite photo hidden in a Web 
    Site image; 3. A Flight Schedule hidden in an MP3 file(Whitney Houston's 
    renditon of "God Bless America" no less).
    
    The way the video is edited impiles to a casual observer that these are 
    actually images from from Bin Laden. Only a couple times do they mention in 
    passing that it is a "Demonstration".
    
    The slickly produced segment's only purpose seems to be to spread FUD about 
    the use of Cryptography and Stegnaography.
    
    Shame on them.
    
    
    
    
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