Crypto FUD from ABCnews
Buzz LightYear
bzzlgtyr at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 5 07:36:16 PDT 2001
ABCnews.com has a story and a streaming video segment concerning Osam Bin
Laden's use of Steganography.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/DailyNews/PRIMETIME_011004_steganography.html
(Link to video on page).
My problem is in the video segment. The segment "demonstrates" the use of
steganography buy showing 3 examples: 1. The floor plan of an aircraft
hidden in an image of the Mona Lisa; 2. A satelite photo hidden in a Web
Site image; 3. A Flight Schedule hidden in an MP3 file(Whitney Houston's
renditon of "God Bless America" no less).
The way the video is edited impiles to a casual observer that these are
actually images from from Bin Laden. Only a couple times do they mention in
passing that it is a "Demonstration".
The slickly produced segment's only purpose seems to be to spread FUD about
the use of Cryptography and Stegnaography.
Shame on them.
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