C'punks,
Does anyone on the Cypherpunks Channel have any inside information about the "computer porn ring" that was busted at Lawrence Livermore Labs? Is there a crypto tie-in?
S a n d y
I've read the "Mercury News" front-page article...does that count? (It's in today's paper--Tuesday, 1994-07-12.) The issue, for those who haven't read the article, is that LLL computers and disks were used (apparently) for storage of GIFs and the like, for anonymous ftp access. Apparently this site was not advertised...it was not "ftp.porn.bomb-labs.gov" or anything else. The crypto tie-in is interesting: steganography. Apparently the investigators have read about steganography--perhaps in "Wired"?--and are worried that password sniffers, and the like, are collecting secrets and then packing them into the porno images. Very implausible, that someone would go to this trouble. Too many other ways. No doubt the images are just the usual two-bit use of someone else's facilities. My joke, "Debbie Does Fort Meade," turns out be more prophetic than I thought. --Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."