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 ********* 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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