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   Re: terrorists using ebay pics to pass messages

   

   Michael Lott, Jul 17th, 2002 @ 5:00am

   
   

   This is a highly unlikely scenario. Granted, the capability is there to encrypt a message and "hide" it in a picture, but why do it on eBay, where the whole world has access to it? That just doesn't make any sense. No, I would imagine if they are using this kind of technology, then they are doing it in a much lower scale, less visible way.

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   1 -> 7, Jul 17th, 2002 @ 5:04am

   
   

   Anything the government has wanted strict control over but never had the constitutional right to do so with will now be involved in some way or another with terrorism ... we must give them control over everything or else the terrorists will win! lol

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   thecaptain, Jul 17th, 2002 @ 5:57am

   
   

   and don't forget this one:
   
   "Think of the children!!!"
   
   Combine the two and we MUST do what they say.

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   WWWWWH

   

   Jared, Jul 17th, 2002 @ 8:09am

   
   

   The reason is simple: Sometimes the best place to hide a letter is on the mantle. Also, eBay is a dependable replicated server system. Its accessable from anywhere, its dependable and finding encrypted traffic would be like a needle in a haystack. Any server that fits this profile is useable like this. But the practice of encrypting messages within image data (steganography) has an obvious tell. You have to use a format such as BMP, TIFF or GIF. Compressed image formats like JPG destroy the encryption and are ineligable for coding. Note that these aren't the most popular file formats and their use should stand out to anyone.

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   Re: WWWWWH

   

   Joe Schmoe, Jul 17th, 2002 @ 8:39am

   
   

   Unless the message encoding was integral to the jpeg compression alg's...

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   Joe Schmoe, Jul 17th, 2002 @ 8:58am

   
   

   Honestly, all this Stego and Encryption FUD is a bunch of hooey. They could have, and probably, communicated openly and simply amoungst themselves. Let's face it - you can drop a message in plain english on a back of a postcard and if no one pays attention to it (and at the time no one had any reason to) then obscurity is a non issue.
   
   In fact, this scenario is beautiful in it's simplicity. Any large landmark [read target] in this country has a postcard with its' picture on it. One would not even have to name the said target - just send a postcard of "it" with a keyworded message.
   
   In all of this after analysis though, and I'll bring it up here should someone know, the one thing that I am left with curiousity is - why was the date of 9-11 chosen? Everyone went nuts fearing an attack on July 4th this past month because of the association to our holiday and its' significance, but that was a date that is signficant to "us". What about 9-11 was significant to "them"?

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   Jared, Jul 17th, 2002 @ 9:30am

   
   

   1. They were ready
   2. Airlines had 3 continent-crossing aircraft departing from the appropriate cities.
   3. There is no #3

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   Anonymous Coward, Jul 17th, 2002 @ 4:26pm

   
   

   September 11, 1990 was when Bush Sr. announced the Gulf war ... so its meaning to them was the date when the US invaded their "holy" lands.
   
   "On September 11, 1990 President George Bush (Sr.) made a dramatic speech to Congress, outlining the US position in the Kuwait crisis, and the preliminary steps the US was taking towards the Gulf War."

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   mullah, Jul 18th, 2002 @ 1:41am

   
   

   There are also some slightly obscure (to us) Moslem anniversaries on Sept 11th.

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    Thanks...

    

    Joe Schmoe, Jul 18th, 2002 @ 7:59am

    
    

    ...for this answer/insight.

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    Patryck, Feb 11th, 2003 @ 5:56pm

    
    

    All this Stego stuff isn't crap.
    Encrypting messages and hiding them into files exists, and there are an unlimited of ways to do this.
    You can encrypt messages into mp3s, images, and other files that people wouldn't even think possible. You can even use bibles, government websites like the CIA and NSA to send Cyphirs accross the world wide web to anyone and no one would even know it.
    
    
    As for 911, maybe it's the 911 emergency number? maybe it's the significane to the date of military operations in Iraq during the gulf war? or a day of vengence? 911, alot of military actions took place on those days, such as the coup de'etat Chile september 11 1973.
    
    And why would I want to save a cookie?

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