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From: "Richard M. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Calling all amateur codebreakers
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:49:45 -0400
Hi,
USA Today just ran an article about Al Qaeda allegedly using
steganography to communicate via Web sites using hidden messages in
ordinary MP3 and JPEG files. I have attached the relevant sections of
the article.
Does anyone on the Politech list want to take a crack at locating one
of these files with a hidden message? Extra credit is given if the
hidden message can be decrypted! According to USA Today, the files
are located at ebay.com and azzam.com.
The New York Times also did a nice article last fall on steganography:
Veiled Messages of Terrorists May Lurk in Cyberspace
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/science/physical/30STEG.html
Thanks,
Richard M. Smith
http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com
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Militants wire Web with links to jihad
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/07/10/web-terror-cover.htm
Lately, al-Qaeda operatives have been sending hundreds of encrypted
messages that have been hidden in files on digital photographs on the
auction site eBay.com. Most of the messages have been sent from
Internet cafes in Pakistan and public libraries throughout the world.
An eBay spokesperson did not return phone calls.
The volume of the messages has nearly doubled in the past month,
indicating to some U.S. intelligence officials that al-Qaeda is
planning another attack.
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U.S. officials say azzam.com contains encrypted messages in its
pictures and texts - a practice known as steganography. They say the
hidden messages contain instructions for al-Qaeda's next terrorist
attacks. Mathematicians and other experts at the National Security
Agency at Fort Meade, Md., are using supercomputers to try to break
the encryption codes and thwart the attacks.
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