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Steganography and whether the terrorists are using it
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SpaceBass
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Steganography and whether the terrorists are using it

Here's an interesting web adaptation of a PowerPoint presentation on steganography prepared by the ~~guy~~ nice lady (thanks Elonka!) who cracked the PhreakNIC v3.0 Code.

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It's a ~70-slide discussion of what steganography is, how it's used, and whether or not Al Qaeda might or might not have been using steganography to send hidden messages.

Although the focus of the presentation is steganography, and specifically its possible use by terrorists, there are also many other good points touched on by the author with respect to many different ways to hide or secretly transmit data using the internet. I am personally intrigued by the mention of the POW code, which predated the internet by quite a spell and was an extremely low-tech secret messaging technique.

Many of these techniques could be used in our gaming genre, and the author offers plenty of tips for how to spot possible repositories for hidden data. He She even went so far as to embed (though not terribly subtly) a meta-message in the presentation itself!

Tip: I didn't check out the lo-res version but if you view the hi-res version, some of the slides have animations that can be activated by clicking within the slide (sometimes multiple times per slide). If you come across a slide that seems sadly lacking in information, try clicking on it. Smile

P.S. The PhreakNIC Code Tutorial looks pretty damn interesting too, for combining a great many different cipher and encryption techniques (but I don't have time to read it all right now...it's late!).

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Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2002 5:10 am

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