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Re: Stego spy terrorist scare
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Wed Sep 26 13:53:52 2001
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:36:11 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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In-Reply-To: <200109250424.QAA411370@ruru.cs.auckland.ac.nz>; from pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:24:34PM +1200
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:24:34PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Looking at some of the recent (unsubstantiated) reports of people who would
> abhor porn for religious reasons using porn to communicate (!!), I wonder if
> these stories can be traced back to the LA Times nonsense of a few years ago
> where unnamed spies were doing the same thing? Given that these rumours stick
> around more or less forever once started, and that the stego-porn story seems
> to be no more than a rumour, could it just be a mutation of the same story?
This year's buzz over bin Laden & co using stego seems to stem from this
article, citing unnamed intel sources, in USA Today in June:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-02-05-binladen.htm
-Declan
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