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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...

Stegograms found on azzam.com Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:21:04 -0400To: politech@politechbot.comSubject: FC: Reply to Politech challenge: Stegograms found on azzam.comFrom: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Keep in mind that these claims of bin-Laden-stego are closer to unsourced speculations than verifiable fact. Perhaps an enterprising prankster has been posting attack-at-dawn plans in stego form, for instance. And when some politicos have used 9-11 as an excuse to talk about encryption restrictions, it makes sense to be appropriately skeptical, though not entirely dismissive. Some of this looks like old news. I wrote about a similar claim in Feb 2001, as a followup to...