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Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Tuesday, October 30, 2001

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/science/physical/30STEG.html

Veiled Messages of Terrorists May Lurk in Cyberspace
By GINA KOLATA

The investigation of the terrorist attacks on the United States is drawing new attention to a stealthy method of sending messages through the Internet. The method, called steganography, can hide messages in digital photographs or in music files but leave no outward trace that the files were altered. Intelligence officials have not revealed many details about whether, or how often, terrorists are using steganography. But a former French defense ministry official said that it was used by recently apprehended terrorists who were planning to blow up the United States embassy in Paris....

 


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