Crypto FUD from ABCnews

[Tim May]

On Friday, October 5, 2001, at 07:36 AM, Buzz LightYear wrote:

> 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.

Don't forget that it was a U.S. evening news show that "demonstrated" 
that gas tanks of a particular vehicle are prone to catching fire by 
attaching an Estes model rocket engine to the gas tank! Only when 
someone narced them out did they sheepishly admit that they had faked 
the demonstration with this rocket engine.


--Tim May, Occupied America

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety 
deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.