[crypt2k]

Messages can be encrypted and then tucked away in digital and audio images and are next to impossible to detect.

The Bin Laden network can now communicate with impunity.

Terrorists have become the lowest snakes in a dense, dark electronic jungle.

[Common Tator]

Messages can be encrypted and then tucked away in digital and audio images and are next to impossible to detect

You are correct. There is no way to prevent secure communications over the internet outside of total destruction of the internet.

For a while some may use the open net or mildly encoded stuff for dis-information. Soon we will learn that if we can tell it is a message, it is fake.