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Nic Name · 04-06-2002, 02:27 PM

The phrase "Who ya gonna call?" could be embedded in the .jpg using steganography.

The folks at In-Q-Tel could be working with the folks at Google to ensure that such "invisible" messages can be found by Google (like they do with .pdf) and read by Carnivore, or whatever friendly name that snoopdog is called these days.

This little Terrorist Busters piece of badly designed nonsense, that seems so "out of place" on a government website, may be an innocuous demo page for the CIA to illustrate the problem in a "live to Internet" unclassified environment. In that context, the graphic image is appropriately dumbed down to be representative of a terrorist webpage on the Internet, not of the official government website.

I don't think it is just an example of the cia.gov webdev team amusing themselves or trying to lighten up with a little giggle, as suggested by HB in the previous thread on this topic. But then again, what else do they have to do over there?

MIB

04-06-2002, 02:27 PM	#7
Nic Name retired Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,930	The phrase "Who ya gonna call?" could be embedded in the .jpg using steganography. The folks at In-Q-Tel could be working with the folks at Google to ensure that such "invisible" messages can be found by Google (like they do with .pdf) and read by Carnivore, or whatever friendly name that snoopdog is called these days. This little Terrorist Busters piece of badly designed nonsense, that seems so "out of place" on a government website, may be an innocuous demo page for the CIA to illustrate the problem in a "live to Internet" unclassified environment. In that context, the graphic image is appropriately dumbed down to be representative of a terrorist webpage on the Internet, not of the official government website. I don't think it is just an example of the cia.gov webdev team amusing themselves or trying to lighten up with a little giggle, as suggested by HB in the previous thread on this topic. But then again, what else do they have to do over there? MIB