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FC: Al Qaeda cell members used steganography --New York

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Sat, 10 May 2003 10:16:34 -0400 From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: politech@politechbot.com Subject: FC: Al Qaeda cell members used steganography --New York Post Send reply to: declan@well.com

>From the Politech archives:

Also see: http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/dailynews/primetime_011004_steganography.html

-Declan

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From: "Major Variola (ret)" Subject: Its Official: Stego to be demonized To: cypherpunks Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 17:18:29 -0700 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win95; U)

Investigators believe cell members were using a process called stenography, in which special software allows a text message to be hidden inside a small part of a computer photograph.

U.S. investigators say many terrorists received instruction on the technique when they trained at al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan.

http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/57502.htm

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