<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001%2D02%2D05%2Dbinladen.htm">You may have seen plans of the terrorist attack and not even known it</a> <b>Terror groups hide behind Web encryption By Jack Kelley, USA TODAY 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. Bin Laden, indicted in the bombing in 1998 of two U.S. embassies in East Africa, and others are hiding maps and photographs of terrorist targets and posting instructions for terrorist activities on sports chat rooms, pornographic bulletin boards and other Web sites, U.S. and foreign officials say.</b> Hmmm...maybe the Feds just want an excuse to surf p*rn sites at work Looks like I'll have to do a little "investigating" when I get home today...
The next time my girlfriend catches me sneakin a peek, I will explain that I am looking for undercover info
Sports chat rooms? Uh-oh. I'm keeping a close eye on all y'all at cc.net, especially with those cryptic posts and caption game pictures.
It's called steganography and it's pretty damn impressive to actualy see. There is a 30 day trial of a program called Invisible Secrets from here for anybody who would like to see how well it works. Downloading this program and playing with it for a while will give you a pretty good idea how paranoid some people can be (be it waranted or not). This from their web site:
