Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adam Shostack: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 10:24:09PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: | * R. A. Hettinga quotes a news article: | | There have been numerous media reports in recent years that terrorist | groups, including al-Qaida, were using steganographic techniques. | | As far as I

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-13 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 9 Dec 2004 at 16:15, J.A. Terranson wrote: (3) The other camp believes that stego is a lab-only toy, unsuitable for much of anything besides scaring the shit out of the people in the Satan camp. I have used stego for practical purposes. The great advantage of stego is that it

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-13 Thread Adam Shostack
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 10:24:09PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: | * R. A. Hettinga quotes a news article: | | There have been numerous media reports in recent years that terrorist | groups, including al-Qaida, were using steganographic techniques. | | As far as I know, these news stories can

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-13 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Psyops ain't just for the (overt) military you know... http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/10367781.htm Truth be told, lies are part of Pentagon strategy By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - The

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-13 Thread Steve Thompson
--- J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Bill Stewart wrote: The more serious problem is what this means for computer evidence search and seizure procedures - the US has some official rules about copy the disk and return the computer that came out of the Steve

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-13 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Bill Stewart wrote: The more serious problem is what this means for computer evidence search and seizure procedures - the US has some official rules about copy the disk and return the computer that came out of the Steve Jackson case, not that they're always followed;

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-13 Thread Bill Stewart
For instance, a seemingly innocent digital photo of a dog could be doctored to contain a picture of an explosive device or hidden wording. Of course, the _real_ message wasn't hidden in subtle stego bits - it was whether the picture was Bush's dog, Cheney's dog, or Blair's dog. It recommends

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* R. A. Hettinga quotes a news article: There have been numerous media reports in recent years that terrorist groups, including al-Qaida, were using steganographic techniques. As far as I know, these news stories can be tracked back to a particular USA Today story. There's also been a bunch

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-13 Thread Ian Grigg
It seems consistent that Al Qaeda prefers being 'fish in the sea' to standing out by use of crypto. Also, given the depth and breadth of conspiracies they believe in, it seems that they might see all us cryptographers as a massive deception technique to get them to use bad crypto. (And hey,

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: Those cops you taught...do you think they were stupid enough to assume that, because this was their first time hearing about Stego, that Al Qaeda was only starting to use it right then? Thats an interesting question on several different levels: (1)

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
J.A. Terranson wrote: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: Those cops you taught...do you think they were stupid enough to assume that, because this was their first time hearing about Stego, that Al Qaeda was only starting to use it right then? Thats an interesting question on several

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread John Kelsey
From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 9, 2004 2:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages .. NSA folks, on the other hand, I would assume have a soft

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Trei, Peter wrote: J.A. Terranson wrote: (4) I have yet to meet a full dozen people who share my belief that while stego *may* be in use, if it is, that use is for one way messages of semaphore-class messages only. I really do not understand why this view is

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Maybe, but I think it would be very hard to write a general-purpose stego detector, without knowing the techniques used for encoding the message. And if you know the distribution of your cover channel as well as your attacker, or can generate lots of values from that distribution even if you

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: Perhaps LEA confuse themselves thinking al-q is inciting a cultural revolution? In all seriousness, there is some of that fear within the LE community. I'm sure it's about the same as when the weathermen were running around the pentagon's

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Steve Thompson wrote: --- R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lions and Tigers and Steganography, Nell... For those of you without a program, here is the new, official, Horsemen of the Infocalypse Scorecard: At 3:14 PM -0400 10/3/04, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Horseman Color

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread Trei, Peter
J.A. Terranson wrote: (4) I have yet to meet a full dozen people who share my belief that while stego *may* be in use, if it is, that use is for one way messages of semaphore-class messages only. I really do not understand why this view is poopoo'd by all sides, so I must be pretty dense?

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Thompson wrote: [assholes] You tell them, Steve I believe I just did. Insanity is a great cover for an insurectionist! I suppose it could be, although I am give to belive that residents of the White Room Hotel may only carry out

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread John Kelsey
From: J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 9, 2004 1:19 PM To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages . As recently as two years ago, I had

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-09 Thread Tyler Durden
], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:19:55 -0600 (CST) On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: What a fuckin' joke. You mean they're only now realizing that Al-Qaeda could use