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Feds Fund Anti-Terrorism Search Engine
Ben writes "The FAA and researchers at the University at Buffalo are developing an anti-terrorism search engine that will hunt for 'hidden' information -- like how to take down an airliner -- that can be puzzled together by grabbing bits and pieces from unrelated documents. Eventually, they say, the technique can be commercialized to improve search results on more mundane matters.`"
That's the funniest thing I've heard about the government doing since they shut down the "psychic spies" unit ten years ago.
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Since the government has been trying for decades to obfuscate information and make sure people can't really get useful data, this will help them accomplish that goal.
``Saunders, you did it again. If a user visits these 73 pages in the right order, and happens to hear the NBC news theme anywhere during the last 7 pages, it will be intuitively obvious to them how to actually get through to their Congresscritter. We can't have that!''
I heard there was this device that allowed a person to kill others by simply pointing at them. Apparently it involves bits of metal propelled at high speeds by explosive charges. You reckon they'll be able to find instructions for one of these things so they can censor it?
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UnleSs thEy have A BOt capable of huMan level thinking they won't find a Blasted thing.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
How many gamers do you think will get tagged by and subsequently visited by authorities who believe they are mixed up in terrorist activities?
If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
is this going to do us any good? Seriously, throw up any custom restricted webpage (.htaccess will do, though how can you crack around say 2048bit public/private key?) and the entire point is gone. What if the information is hidden within graphical text documents in such a form that you can't easily connect the pieces. This sounds too much like "A Beautiful Mind" and not like a real solution.
Sounds to me like it's simply a terrorism search engine designed perfectly for terrorists. What purposes would culling bits and pieces of info about how to take down an airplane serve for anti-terror efforts? You would find out that it's possible to find lots of info on the subject... great... now what? You're not really going to be able to stop that information from existing.
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Isn't this called data mining?
Get yourself a schizophrenic math genius. They see everything. :)
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There's already a search engine that compares 2 pieces of data.. it's called googlewhack http://www.googlewhack.com/
http://cryptome.org/fbi-cryptome.htm
Wouldn't that be a terrorism search engine?
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Results 1 - 10 of about 703,000 for how to achieve world domination. (0.15 seconds)
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Does the intelligence agency put out fake advertisements for selling weapons? Underground sources could then try and secure weapons through these channels and be caught.
God spoke to me.
UIR is an example of text mining, going across documents and uncovering things that are not apparent to the user," she said. [emphasis mine]
So, IOW, someone who posts in their blog a phrase they overheard in a bar can now be surrepitiously linked to terrorism. Thanks to the PATRIOT act, their house could be then searched without them even knowing it. Isn't it wonderful that we have this computer program which even further undermines our basic liberties?!
So what this tool basically does is allow the FBI to portray an otherwise innocent person as having "links to terrorism". Considering the degree to which the common person (read: grand juror) trusts computers, this is a very dangerous extension of power for the FBI.
I wonder if the authors of this software are even aware of the oppression and injustice they are enabling.
The proponents of increased surveillance used to say, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" Well, thanks to those numbskulls who wrote this software, even those who have nothing to hide may still be judged guilty .
The society for a thought-free internet welcomes you.
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To be honest, that sort of thing has never struck me as the kind of problem terrorists have had- usually when they've tried it, they've been pretty successful. They haven't tried many times, and we've seen how close even complete and total idiots like Richard Reid(sp?) can come, despite all our "security measures".
Nevermind that far more planes crash because of pilot error or mechanical problems than terrorist hijackings- maybe we should rethink priorities here a little?
What's next? The Department of Transportation determining driver ed manuals need to be pulled because they tell people how to drive a truck, and trucks might be used to carry bombs? Next thing you know, budgets will be hidden because, gasp, we wouldn't want terrorists to know where we spend the most money, they might try to blow it up! Then CSPAN won't be allowed to broadcast senate sessions- wouldn't want terrorists to know when senators are in session. The list goes on and on and on.
This paranoia is getting REALLY annoying. Folks- come to grips with the fact that freedom might, on occasion, require personal sacrifice. This country is getting really fucking annoying to live in, which is pretty much exactly what terrorists set out to do.
In the words of Ben Franklin, "they that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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I can just imagine what the government would want with "more mundane matters"...
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The easiest way to take down an airplane is to land a nuke on it. Easy. It's all science.
Eventually, they say, the technique can be commercialized to improve search results on more mundane matters.
What a totally lame plan. I am outraged that my tax dollars are contributing to this.
For starters, it's totally inefficient.
A much better program would be to create an Afgan-style terrorist training bootcamp somewhere in the Midwest and invite radical Muslims and people from the militia/posse commitatus scene to "try it out" free of charge. Then "study" them afterwords in order to better understand real-life terrorism. Hell, they should even hire high ranking Al-Qaida members to staff the thing. And be sure to give them full amnesty, citizenship, high level security clearances, and six-figure salaries.
Eventually the neocons will have their terrorists... even if they have to create them.
Alas, how America has fallen...
The TRUTH is that this post is in-fact a terrorist transmission, using their technology I have decoded it:
;-)
"The FAA and researchers at the University at Buffalo are developing an anti-terrorism search engine that will hunt for 'hidden' information -- like how to take down an airliner -- that can be puzzled together by grabbing bits and pieces from unrelated documents. Eventually, they say, the technique can be commercialized to improve search results on more mundane matters.`"
And I didn't have to spend 10 quadrillion dollars to find that hidden message
Most likely this will be abused to shut up dissidents by saying: "Your web page links to a web page that links to a web page that links to a web page by someone we consider terrorists. Shut down your home page or go to jail on terrorist charges."
yeah , we got him too .. . NO CARRIER
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I think this might give you a good start, particularly the recipe for nitroglycerin.
<sarc> But of course those "stupid towelheads" in those "axis of evil" countries wouldn't already KNOW that this information is freely available. </sarc>
I fail to see what this will achieve.
"And then I visited Wikipedia
If all the nuggets of how to (insert evil thing) reside on similar servers/sites/etc., I'm guessing they're looking to be able to spot those patterns and see who's behind posting all these seemingly innocuous bits of info.
Oh, that, and they want to read your email.
You know what?
Well, it makes more sense than a lot of the alternatives, like the idea that we invaded for idealistic causes like liberty and human rights and all that shit. If that were really the case, why has the Bush administration proven so reluctant to get involved in places like Liberia and the Sudan, where there's a lot of humanitarian issues, but no economic interests?
If you really want to get a measure of the character of a person, check out how they treat people who they have nothing to gain from. If you apply that same criterion to the United States, I don't think it comes off as very well. The United States' actions in Iraq are- well, at least were intended to be- self serving.
What those self-serving motives were, I don't know. Part of it, I think, was that after the fall of the USSR, the U.S. became the sole remaining superpower. The Neocons wanted to cement that position by knocking off one of the few guys who challenged us, acquiring strategically important bases in the Middle East, and using that position to ensure that America would continue to be able to access the cheap oil it needs to grow. The liberty of the Iraqis was like all the Halliburton contracts- not the main reason for invading, just a bonus.
$ telnet terrorsearchengine Trying terrorsearchengine... Connected to terrorsearchengine. Escape character is '^]'. GET /search?query=WhereIsOsamaBinLaden HTTP/1.0
Host: terrorsearchengine
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 23:41:17 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)
Location: http://nobodyfuckingknows/
"Huh, doesn't google do this already!????"
(Note: I din't RTFA.)
I would imagine that the biggest difference between Google and the engine in the article is that it is intended to reduce false hits by a great deal more. "how to take down an airliner" turned up over 200,000 hits.
In other words, it'd be hard to use Google to find somebody planning a terrorist attack.
"Derp de derp."
"Hmm, looks like Red November is moving into nuclear weapons, chemicals and .. inkjet refills." "My god! They must be stopped!"
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
If they really want quick results, it seems to me that our tax dollars would be better spent hiring Google to whip them up something instead. Or better yet, just save the tax dollars altogether and find something more useful to spend it on.
It dosen't take a genius to take out an airliner. Most terrorists are stupid anyway, and keep thinking they'll get out alive. If one got onboard and was successful, well let's just say that's the end. All this big brother stuff just invades ordinary private citizens their right to talk about whatever they want. Actions of course are different. But here's my guide to take out an airline in 1 easy step: 1) Take a book of matches onboard (apparently so i've heard, only lighters are banned) and set yourself on fire. or, if in your evil country, they ban you from taking anything onboard including your shirt: 1) put the matches in a ziplock and swallow them. calmly wait till they come out the other end and do same as 1) above. Damn, governments are k-rad, huh?
Geesh, they're about 20 years behind the times.
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This might have worked back in the 80s, before the Net encompassed all the info that it does, but by this point it's just a big waste of money just so we can live in Fear.
Sigh.
Every day in every way the choices made are oh so clueless
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The Middle East matters and Africa does not. At least from a geopolitical perspective.
For the time being the middle east is going to play a large role in world politics simply because it sits on an ocean of texas tea. The United States did not invade Iraq specifically for oil, liberty, humanitarian purposes, or to combat the spread of WMD. It was probably a combination of those and the fact that Iraq, no matter the leader, has a large influence on the geopolitics of the middle east. And to an extent from there, the entire world.
It's in the United States' best interests to have a power in Iraq that is amicable to the American worldview. Especially one that is amicable to America's regional view.
So really, take your pick as to why the United States invaded Iraq.
Um, if Google lists 200,000 ways to take down an airliner, I don't think the terrorists will go to the trouble of setting up their own web server.
Call me crazy.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
Since the fear is that somehow people are going to be able to put together information that lets them commit terrorist acts there is no reason to let people have any of the equipment that lets them commit terrorist acts. Perhaps the simplest solution is to lobotomize everyone so no one can think.
Seastead this.
"Intelligence" services were warned about the previous attack on the WTC, but they lacked translators. They were warned about 9/11, but they couldn't prevent it because they lacked translators.
They obviously need a search engine to solve this problem.
Information: "I want to be anthropomorphized"
Huge deficits, imaginary dragons, a new mecca for terrorism, the erosion of freedom, all this shiny new tecknarlogy to watch our every move...
Oops, guess not.
remember--- they can't EVEN 'connect dots' from 911, that a third grader could have-- given the same data.
but then again, even if they (government) are more dangerous than smart, i still say they worship the god of 'machiavelli' more than even money.
I will gladly loose all of life's battles.. in order to win the war..
The concept is that vulnerabilities in real life work much like many vulnerabilities in software -- doing one thing, like passing off help:// urls to a help application, is fine, and doing another thing, like running scripts in your help application, is fine, but put them together and it's an exploit. Lots of places could tell you either one of those facts, and once you know both of them you can defend yourself -- the premise is that this engine would be able to bring them together.
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So what kind of info might they be attempting to bring together? I must admit I'm not thinking of great examples, but it probably goes something like this -- gas pipelines run in known places, and electric lines run in known places, and internet lines run in known places, and water lines run in known places. Independently, that information doesn't help you much, but put it together and you can discover a few locations where a bomb would cause ten times the damage of anywhere else. You can then make sure that those places receive ten times the protection
I'm wondering if this "hidden information" they are referring to isn't just the pages that have a no robots tag. I sure hope the Fed isn't trying to create an internet spider that ignores the no robots or no follow tags.
Or this could be an IRC search engine.
Either way, a new Big Brother sponsored search engine can't be good for civil rights.
The idea that this Government funded search program will have great civilian benefits sounds like spin.
Oh, but what do I care? I've just read that the government has increased the chocolate ration!
Never saw that before on a Government site. Anyone else seeing this? It seems to appear infrequently.
Combining "bits and pieces" from this posting and the preceding five (some slight allowance for tense and common words must be made), I find the following alarming statements:
the Internet community / [is] publishing / anonymous / suggestions for / terrorism / [in] article[s] running on Yahoo News / AOL, MSN, and Earthlink
rumored / revelation that / three recent / occurrences / (touches / 30,000 people / collectively) / will change the landscape / forever
'hidden' information / [has] doubled / success in this endeavor / - "nearly everyone will go" / - about 10% of IBM's staff / is already / infected
pro-freedom / dissidents / are looking for ways / to take down an airliner / for nothing
commercialized / products/procedures/systems / [and] hardware / too risky / [at] exaggerated prices / as high as $950
bits and pieces / at an unidentified / 'banned' sites / can be puzzled together / to improve / technique
an unidentifed / spokeswoman for the / FAA / points out that / [their] staff / [has] commitment to / more mundane matters
So Slashdot is advising the Internet terrorist community where to look for information on biological warfare and anti-aircraft weapons.
Yipe!
I figure by 2030 or so my 6-digit UID will be something to brag about.
I assume that once they 'piece together' these bad things, they go out and shut down the sites where the 'pieces' are, in the name of 'safety' ?
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Remember that what terrorists need most is willing martyrs (typically very uneducated and likely fanatical or forced) and bloodthirsty hate (violent, psychopathic minds), not technological information.
...searching for potential terrorist secrets:
;P
I feel it's my duty as a true American to give the Feds a tip on a concept that's widely dispersed in various places throughout the internets. This secret tehnology has been placed in everything from chocolate chip recipes to plumbing manuals, but if put in the wrong hands and used in combination with a few other technologies, it could be use to take down a jet airliner. In fact, it even appears to have been use in an indirect way during the 9/11 incident.
Here it is: Take two objects (should be sticks or flints, but there are other objects) and rub them together until you get either a spark or smoke. You can tell if you're doing this properly because you should start seeing smoke before you eventually see this horrific technology make it's appearance.
In other terms: "The secret is to bag the rocks together guys"!
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
I think google already does an excellent job of finding that information.
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
for us to fight those who would destroy American freedom, we Americans must remain FREE ourselves, for to do otherwise would be to FURTHER the cause of our enemies. yet, those very politicians who claim to fight for our protection are doing so at the COST OF OUR FREEDOMS. with these politicians left unchecked, "live free or die" will soon no longer our choices. soon, it will be just "live or die." it seems to me that our enemies are winning without lifting a finger; OUR government is doing it FOR them.
The FAA and researchers at the University at Buffalo are developing an anti-terrorism search engine that will hunt for 'hidden' information -- like how to take down an airliner -- that can be puzzled together by grabbing bits and pieces from unrelated documents. Eventually, they say, the technique can be commercialized to improve search results on more mundane matters.`"
1)TSA agents aren't allowed to squeeze breasts.
2)Some breast implants can be installed and thenenlarged over time by injecting additional saline solution
3)The chemicals required to make nitroglycerin are freely available and here's the recipe.
Give me a break! It's more $ down the rathole is ALL it is.
You want to take out an airliner? Pick a plane flying into HongKong and bribe a baggage handler to pour a jug of olive oil on the brakes.
Hire some Nigerian heroin mules and substitute explosives in the condoms they swallow.
Ship a large dog with 20lb of dynamite surgically implanted.
Of course. Which is why this initiative is silly.
There isn't a search engine for peoples' brains yet. Thank God.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
Since airplanes obey the laws of physics
The laws of physics could be applied in some way to bring them down.
Therefore all web sites that cover any aspects of the laws of physics, Newtonian Mechanics, or Relativity, need to be censored, shut down, or require registration of all users with the federal government and background checks to protect the national security.
In other words, a way of censoring not only harmless but useful material just because someone can aggregate it with many other things and put it to harmful use if they choose.
as of late, any endeavor related to anti-terrorism and that looks remotely "intelligent" has a good chance of getting funded by the US government. I think that's as simple as that. Also, you wouldn't believe how many "anti-terrorism" devices and concepts have been granted a US patent the last 4 years.
For posting this comment, 5 min. later at this guy's front door:
*knock
*knock
*knock
"Hello, just a friendly visit from your local FBI field office!"
"Lawyer? Under the Patriot Act we can hold you for 72 hours without cause. Now get ready for the cavity search!"
I misinterpreted your original message. Wouldn't want to piss-off a fan.
Searching
for random bits of data to make one point . . sounds a bit like
schizophrenia, or at least a more `ecclectic'
approach.
If you're interested in facts I'll tell you what they are and I'll give you sources - Chomsky on The Big Idea
I'm usually not the first to shout "Conspiracy Theory" but this sounds dangerous.
From TFA, it sounds like they are looking for secret messages in documents in much the same way those programs that gleaned "prophecy" out of the bible worked.
The point is, this has all the engineering of a witch-hunt machine.
"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes." -Mahatma Gandhi
Any terrorist worth his salt is already walking without rhythm, to avoid attracting the worm (or CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.)
In other words, surveillance strategies (especially those that get publicly discussed such as this one) will only catch the dumb terrorists. We won't find out about the smart ones until they WANT to be noticed. And any real search/surveillance breakthrough that actually works is not going to be announced by the FAA like this; it will be neither confirmed nor denied (sorta like Echelon).
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In the words of Ben Franklin, "they that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Whenever I hear this quote, I have to wonder which essential liberity he was talking about. Because he might have been discussing the virtues of maintaining a minstress over a wife. He was quite the lady's man.
Maybe someone else can find that quote of his with him talking about the virtues of having an older mistress over a younger mistress. Classic stuff...
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wen are the arswhole (pigs, feds) going to realize that there are more dangerous items that threaten them than 'hand-guns'.. i mean, you can use 'anything' litterely as a weapon.
but what does the governements usually come down hardest on? those that fight and attack with 'words'..
why? cuz that is something the governement can 'really-sink-their-teeth-into', whereas, someone who will actually 'fight back', is someone the pigs are toooo 'yellow-bellied' to take on, for fear of a 'real-fight'. :)
I will gladly loose all of life's battles.. in order to win the war..
This technology has "false positive" written all over it. It'll just tie up our existing system by having agents investigate and track down innocent people.
Just another bait and switch tactic... "Oh yea! great idea! I'm so glad the government is out to help us build better search engines," pbbbbbt
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Because he'd just scored 20 million points in Drug Wars, after Coke went up to some zillion dollars a kilo. "I was surrounded by security officials- didn't seem like a good time to be talking about dumping heroin," he later told me.
Buffalo, NY was involved in a terrorist plan.
o rist&btnG=Google+Search
And now the gov't is working with the University of Buffalo against terror. Ironic. Do those background checks throughly, Uncle Sam!
More info on Buffalo and terrorism here:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=buffalo+terr
We don't have the anti-terror search engine yet, but Google turns up a lot.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
Said the anti-terrorism agent.
www.google.gov
$sig$
You hava a hidden terrorist message in your post. This new search engine is truly needed.
but that's the reason to visit porn sites and
download images and videos. How cool is that?
All terrorist plans, calendars, instructions for
everything from bullets to bombs to WMD are all
neatly encrypted and hidden through the use of
steganography. And communications back up the
chain of command can be done through much lower
bandwidth SPAM.
So when the neo-con Big brothers come knocking
at the door to sift through your porn collection,
it's really just a continuation of the fight against
terrorism. No, really! It really doesn't have
anything to do with the hypocritical religious
fundamentalists trying to regulate your bedroom,
honestly.
Completely agreed, it was all because of the WMDs. Really. Oh and that mean man who was treating them wrong.
wat about them? u trying to say the fed/army are going to drug 6.5 billions of us? or am i missing your point?
I will gladly loose all of life's battles.. in order to win the war..
They want to find hidden information on the Internet? Somebody please add this to the "Examples" section of the Wikipedia "Oxymoron" article.
On a more serious note, after decades of AI research, maybe it's time to realize that we still have a looong way to go before being able to extract any meaning out of random combinations of piractical speech, baby language, franglais, etc., even when written in any form that most English-speaking persons understand. And once that feat is done, how about doing the same for audio or video, with an archaic arabian dialect as the base? And how about techniques like steganography and CAPTCHA?
Bottom line: Human language is hard to decipher, and it doesn't take much imagination to make it even harder.
I googled in "Tell me about Albert Einstien" and the first hit was a bio that, you guessed it, told me about Albert Einstien
l Albert Einstein
http://www.geocities.com/kmhigginson/einstien.htm
Go figger...
"Doctor, it's not the voices I hear in MY head, but the voices I hear in YOUR head that really frighten me."
War has always, but ALWAYS, been about (a) resources or (b) control, with (b) in fact being only in order to secure more (a).
But hey, I guess it's true what they say about those who don't learn from history.
Then what?
Phrack is defunct so why don't they just start by raiding Palladin and Loompanics Press and assert that people in the U.S. do not have a right to publish "terrorist" material? That's the goal, right? Or is this just a neural net exercise?
And then the department of homeland security can go through your site with every possible permutation of terrorist equipment and patent the resulting methods. Then no terrorist will be allowed to ever think of them again! Isn't patent law grand?
how to take down an airliner?:
Much easier way to take down an airliner: at night, fly a bunch of black kites with kevlar lines at the end of the runway.
Considering that in congested urban areas you can stand on a freeway overpass or in long - term parking and easily take down an airliner, it s actually somewhat surprising that someone hasn t tried this yet.
The WP fronts a piece pointing out that commercial cargo on passenger planes is rarely inspected and thus a big juicy target for terrorists looking to take down an airliner.
If a wacko wants to take down an airliner, he sure will, no matter how many points you close.
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Iraq was not a threat even to its neighbours, much less to the USA. And it never "challenged" the USA in any way. An alternative explanation is that neocons needed a myth about evil terrorists or evil Saddam to "unite the country" and grab more power. BBC's The Power of Nightmares discusses this.
Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
Next target to censor:
Slashdot
just in cast you 'think' i'm afraid of (abusers like you).
I will gladly loose all of life's battles.. in order to win the war..
I've got a website that does something similar, but for two arbitrary Wikipedia entries. For instance, consider the case of Bin Laden to Henry Kissinger. The paths go through Cyrus Vance, Christopher Hitchens, and Donald Rumsfeld. Does this mean anything? Probably not. Are there longer paths that might reveal some sort of conspiracy? Probably not, but there are probably other, longer paths that might reveal more interesting relationships. I'd like to see what kind of metric they use for "interestingness", especially given the amount of data they plan to incorporate. What would happen if you ran such a thing against a Lexis-Nexus-sized database?
The beauty is that it knew that 'hamburg' meant Hamburg, Germany, and not hamburg from Mickey D's
Actually I was thinking the guys that thought up this idea were geniuses.
Work at a three-letter-agency, and get caught surfing porn at your desk... "Uh, sure boss, I was checking for terrorist messages hidden in the images. You know I don't actually like looking at this stuff don't you?"
"Unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet,
Impossible means not yet done." ~~ Julia Ecklar
So how did hijackers and such get on before the internet made all this information available? It seems very inlikely to me the internet is the source or the solution to the problem.