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RE: Maybe no stego on eBay afterall
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Sat Jul 20 15:52:40 2002
From: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
To: <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 09:38:25 -0700
In-Reply-To: <15670.65478.136672.341983@cabernet.nelson.monkey.org>
Nelson Minar wrote:
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[About Stego on eBay]
We had some discussion on how silly this claim was on the cryptography
mailing list. Well, today Salon follows up on the story, and quotes Chet
again:
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/17/steganography/
Chet Hosmer ... said that in his research, very few messages on eBay
show signs of being infected by terrorists. About one in 100,000
pictures "appears suspicious," but a much smaller number -- "one in
every 15 to 20 million files" -- is "something that we really
believe is a real hidden message."
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I find it interesting, though not in the least surprising, that the
above quote assumes that all users of steganography are terrorists. From
this position it is a small step to the position that all individual
civilian users of strong/unescrowed cryptography are terrorists.
--Lucky "you didn't /really/ think the crypto wars are over or did you?"
Green
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