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IP: Re: Steganography and bin Laden


From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:14:07 -0400


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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 07:07:26 -0700
To: farber () cis upenn edu, denning () cs georgetown edu
From: Carl Ellison <cme () acm org>
Subject: Re: IP: Steganography and bin Laden
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Dorothy,

        thank you for the link.

        I find it ironic, BTW, that Congress has passed a law that so
severely penalizes some researchers who attempt to break
steganographic systems that others are shying away from that field of
study.

 - Carl

At 11:09 AM 9/17/2001 -0400, David Farber wrote:
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>>Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:01:56 -0400
>>From: "Dorothy E. Denning" <denning () cs georgetown edu>
>>To: "Farber, Dave" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>>
>>
>>This article is from February, but some people might have missed
>>it.  It says that bin Laden's network was using steganography,
>>hiding encrypted messages in sports chat rooms and in pornographic
>>pictures on X-rated web sites.
>>
>>
>> http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-02-05-binladen.htm#mor
>> e
>>
>>Dorothy
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