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Hunt for hidden web messages goes on 18:13 12 July 02 NewScientist.com news service Computer enthusiasts have been searching for messages hidden in web site images following new claims that the al-Qaeda terrorist network is using this technique - steganography - to communicate. However, one expert in the field warns the images that have been flagged up as suspicious after initial examination are almost certain to be cleared after full analysis. Peter Honeyman, at the University of Michigan, told New Scientist: "You get a lot of these. We call them false positives." On 10 July, USA Today reported that US...

What Not To Write On Your Security Clearance Formas reported in the silent-tristero list and RISKS Date: 01 Apr 88 1620 PSTFrom: Les Earnest <LES@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>Subject: The "previous account" referred to in RISKS-6.51 e-t-a-o-n-r-i Spy and the FBI Reading a book got me into early trouble--I had an FBI record by age twelve. This bizarre incident caused a problem much later when I needed a security clearance. I learned that I could obtain one only by concealing my sordid past. A friend named Bob and I read the book ``Secret and Urgent,'' by Fletcher Pratt [Blue Ribbon Books; Garden City, NY;...

April 11, 2002 Top Ten Civil Liberties Abuses of the Income Tax by Chris EdwardsChris Edwards is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute.Any tax system creates a threat to individual liberty because "the power to tax involves the power to destroy," as Chief Justice John Marshall observed.[1] But the federal income tax and its enforcement harm civil liberties much more than necessary to raise needed funds for the government. Certainly, the IRS performs poorly and too easily abuses the rights of citizens. But ultimately Congress is to blame for creating an excessively complex and high-rate tax system....

THE STRUGGLE TO DECIPHER THE WORLD'S MOST DIFFICULT BOOK BY LEV GROSSMAN quot;And that is what you are going to tell the FBI?quot; Marcus Brody asked, as he and Indy passed through the double doors of the Museum of Antiquity. quot;That there was nothing to any of it? The Tomb of Hermes does not exist, Voynich is gibberish, and the philosopher's stone is simply a dream?quot; #150;Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone (1995) THE EMPLOYEES BEHIND THE blond-wood circulation desk at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library have heard it all before, so when I ask to see...