---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 08:27:00 +1000 (EST) From: Grant Bayley <gbayley@ausmac.net> To: jmdibbell@home.com Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com Subject: Re: <nettime> "Pirate Utopia," FEED, February 20, 2001

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Status: U From: "Julian Dibbell" <jmdibbell@home.com> To: <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net> Subject: <nettime> "Pirate Utopia," FEED, February 20, 2001 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:37:20 -0500 Sender: nettime-l-request@bbs.thing.net Reply-To: "Julian Dibbell" <jmdibbell@home.com>

Key concepts: steganography, encryption, Osama bin Laden, intellectual property, temporary autonomous zone, pirates.

It's a shame that Niels Provos, one of the main developers of open-source Steganography software at the moment wasn't able to detect a single piece of information hidden steganographically in a recent survey of two million images... Sort of destroys the whole hype about the use of it by criminals. Details on the paper below: