The article that sparked the fuss, by Jack Kelly of USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-02-05-binladen.htm
>WASHINGTON — Hidden in the X-rated pictures on several pornographic Web
>sites and the posted comments on sports chat rooms may lie the encrypted
>blueprints of the next terrorist attack against the United States or its
>allies. It sounds farfetched, but U.S. officials and experts say it's the
>latest method of communication being used by Osama bin Laden and his
>associates to outfox law enforcement.
That seems to be a reference to steganography applications.
More:
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/06/196253&mode=thread
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41658,00.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16684.html
Some history:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-00232.html
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=terrorists
-Declan
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-02-05-binladen.htm
"Uncrackable encryption is allowing terrorists — Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaida
and others — to communicate about their criminal
intentions without fear of
outside intrusion," FBI Director Louis Freeh said last
March during
closed-door testimony on terrorism before a Senate panel.
"They're thwarting
the efforts of law enforcement to detect, prevent and
investigate illegal
activities."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Terrorists-Internet.html ,
``To a greater and greater degree, terrorist groups, including Hezbollah,
Hamas and bin Laden's al Qaida group, are using computerized files,
e-mail and encryption to support their operations,'' CIA
Director George
Tenet wrote last March to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Reuters via wired http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41650,00.html
"We will use whatever tools we can -- e-mails, the Internet -- to
facilitate jihad against the (Israeli) occupiers
and their supporters,"
the paper quoted Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder
of the militant
Muslim group Hamas, as saying in a recent
interview in the Gaza
Strip. "We have the best minds working with us."
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