IP: more on ABC News says hijackers "may" have communicated using steganography

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 09:50:37 -0400
> From: Colin Hill <hillct () colinhill com>
> Subject: Re: IP: ABC News says hijackers "may" have communicated
>  usingsteganography
>
> Dave,
>    The ABC News piece was more of an outrage than your other reader seems 
> to suggest. While
> some of your readers may know the history of steganography, others may be 
> taken in by the
> outrageous title of the ABC News piece: 'Hijackers May Have Used Secret 
> Internet Messaging
> Technique'. As I'm sure you well know, steganography is a vary ancient 
> art. It's just been
> hidden from public view until recently. One of the first known book on the 
> subject was
> 'steganographica'  written by Gaspari Schotti in 1665. Almost every 
> intelligence service
> that ever existed  have used steganographic techniques at one point or 
> another. One of the
> best known ancient uses of steganography was in the book 'Hypnerotomachia 
> Poliphili'
> published in 1499. There is no excuse to for the blatant misrepresentation 
> by ABC News that
> steganography relates in any way (other than a transport mechanism) to the 
> internet. It
> seems that regardless of  the earlier report that the terrorists were in 
> fact not using
> cryptography to secure email, the ABC News staff felt that technology 
> could be blamed for
> techniques the terrorists may have in fact used. This is truly disgraceful.
>
> Regards,
> Colin



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