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Re: stego in the wild: bomb-making CDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Sun Dec 28 22:25:48 2003
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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:05:02 +1300
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, jsd@av8n.com
John Denker <jsd@av8n.com> writes:
>] Thursday 25 December 2003, 17:13 Makka Time, 14:13 GMT
>]
>] Saudis swoop on DIY bomb guide
>
>[...]
>
>I suspect there is a lot more to this story......
The story could apply to any one of hundreds (thousands?) of hacker/warez CDs
available off-the-shelf in the US. Heck, it could apply to the Encyclopedia
Britannica CD edition. So I'd pick:
> 3) Also: as a rule, anything you do with computers generates
> more headlines than doing the same thing with lower-tech methods.
because:
>] Saudis swoop on DIY bomb guide
sounds a lot better than:
>] Saudis swoop on Britannica vendors
Peter.
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