C I Host CEO Warns Terrorists Can Conceal Messages in Online Media - JPG/GIF Images, MP3s, Videos and Other Digital Information Formats
***MEDIA ALERT - INTERNET SECURITY EXPERT AVAILABLE***
Who: Christopher Faulkner is CEO and founder of C I Host, the
largest privately held Web hosting firm, serving 220,000
clients in 192 countries.
What: British, United States authorities, businesses and citizens
should be aware that terrorists are suspected of communicating
in hidden "steganography." Faulkner explains the technology
and the potential threats.
Topics: Sports chat, entertainment sites, eBay sites could be used.
The U.S. suspected Osama bin Laden used the technique in 2001.
British authorities are stepping up detection of hidden
messages. Using steganography, terrorist groups can use a
"container message" such as an online photograph. By altering
the R/G/B color palette of the image, the groups can insert
tiny bits of a hidden message into each pixel. Then, using a
decoder key sent to each terrorist organization member, they
can decide the pixels to reveal the message. The images can be
uploaded to any web site and are undetectable to the human eye.
Show topics include:
- Terrorists Hide Secrets in eBay Photos
- Hiding Terrorist Organization Blueprints in MP3 Music Files
- Your Photo Might Contact Hidden Terrorists Conversations
- Osama Bin Laden Communicates Through *YOUR* Family Photos
Where: C I Host is centrally located and accessible to both coasts via
the DFW Airport, just a few miles away. Faulkner is available
for in-studio interviews, given advance notice. Faulkner can
also demonstrate steganography LIVE showing hidden messages
within images or audio.
When: Announcement: August 15, 2005
Contact: D. Kent Pingel
VP, Corporate Communications, PR
C I Host (www.cihost.com)
888-868-9931, ext. 7006
kentp@cihost.com
SOURCE C I Host
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=20050815071209990024
((((Granny, I wonder if this ties in with the Maryland Hotel site?)))))
Steven Emerson Cites FBI: Will it Take Another Attack to Really Take the Threat Seriously?
http://counterterror.typepad.com/
(snip)
But I most worry about Americans going soft - about our taking the lack of attacks here for granted, and forgetting that al Qaeda took 7 years between attacks on the WTC. Today's Orlando Sentinel has a review of the National Geographic Channel's "Inside 9/11," which airs tonight and tomorrow night at 9 pm ET. The Sentinel cites and quotes Steven Emerson's segment in the special on his conversations with FBI agents. "They understood that it would take more blood in order to get the government to react," Emerson says. "And now I'm hearing other FBI and other officials say to me, 'Steve, we're going to need another 9-11.'" That's not a rosy scenario. You can see part of Steve's interview in the special here. We will have much more to say about the issue as we approach the anniversary.
Posted by Andrew Cochran at 09:27 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (1)
Link to part of Steve Emerson's interview here:
http://www.intelligencesummit.org/news/StevenEmerson/SE082105.php
Vel it could very well tie in with the hotel.
Did you manage to see any of the photos? I could not.
The homesite would not come up for me at all, and yet there are all those webpages from the site.
If you click the links that are blind, you get a different
page, a different message, but with the meta tags the same, almost, the link will be in the meta tags.
There was one of them that had a seperate line for:
Babtist Church, and one of the meta words was '38 caliber'.
Still Proud 2 be free, found and published the Sten words last year. The news have been talking about OBL hiding message all along.
Why not? We trained them in our Colleges, how to be the best.