30 October 2001
The New York Times reports today on the possible use of steganography by terrorists and the efforts of various investigators who are searching for evidence of the technology on the Net:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/science/physical/30STEG.html
To test discovery of steganographic use Cryptome offers an alleged description of how to activate a nuclear warhead by bypassing its permissive action link (like DoD's covert nuke disarmament teams claim to do), in five stego formats and in PGP:
http://cryptome.org/bypass.wmfhttp://cryptome.org/bypass.eps
http://cryptome.org/bypass.bmp
http://cryptome.org/bypass.dxf
If successful in breaking these, do not publish the unveiled alleged Top Secret/SCI/Codeword/RM description, nor the secret of how the steganography works, just proclaim that it is very dangerous. For that you will be given a handsome government contract from the growing, already overflowing anti-terrorism honeypot, or if not, then prohibited from disclosing the information under a slew of national and economic security laws, backroom favors to political contributors, and top secret presidential orders.
