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Steganography and Cyber Terrorism Communications
By: Dancho Danchev
Following my previous post on Cyber Terrorism Communications and Propaganda, I'm continuing to summarize interesting findings on the topic. The use of encryption to ensure the confidentiality of a communication, be it criminals or terrorists taking advantage of the speed and cheap nature of Internet communications, is often taken as the de-facto type of communication. I feel that it's steganographic communication in all of its variety that's playing a crucial role in terrorist communications. It's never been about the lack of publicly or even commercially obtainable steganographic tools, but the ability to know where and what to look for. Here's a brief comment on a rather hard to intercept communication tool - SSSS - Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme : "No other medium can provide better speed, connectivity, and most importantly anonymity, given it
