Olympics and terrorism
Embedded within explicit photos on some pornographic web sites lurk the dirty little secrets of terrorists associated with Saudi exile Osama bin Laden, these unnamed sources say (USA Today, February 5). olympics and terrorism Against-war-on-terrorism. The cloaked information posted on a variety of highly trafficked web sites has allegedly included maps, targets, and instructions related to terrorist activities. Steganography, the ancient practice of concealing information, is a shadowy cousin to the more obvious and well-known practice of encrypting secret messages. When a message is encrypted, its contents are more or less jumbled in order to baffle anyone who might intercept it. olympics and terrorism Olympics and terrorism. But if something is "stegoed," it is secreted out of sight, like invisible ink. No one but the sender and recipient know it's there, making its discovery much less likely. When used together, the two techniques, encryption and steganography, pose a double whammy for code-breakers. olympics and terrorism Ireland-+-terrorism-+-families. With the Internet, steganography has come of age. Stego-tools-free and easily downloadable software programs-take advantage of the unused space in audio, text, image, or video files and create a secret hiding place for embedding data. Take an image of Osama bin Laden, for example. Then take a map. A stego-tool can be used to hide the map file under the "cover image" (stego-speak for the original file). You have the digital age equivalent of invisible ink. Actually, there isn't much to see. Most stego-media are indistinguishable from unaltered files-which is, in fact, the whole point. An Internet surfer could be looking at a photo of a blonde bombshell and not realize he's also looking at .
Olympics and terrorism
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