I can't begin to speculate about what they could be talking about. Your guess is as good as mine. It looks, to me, like this thing that generates the gibberish is using some standard dictionary file. There a bunch of words that a standard dictionary wouldn't recognize and are thus unchanged. These words stand out a bit.
(IPaddr, PGP, DEA, ROMs, ISDNs, etc.)
This encoding doesn't _look_ very sophisticated to my untrained eye. It leaves some phrases that give clues. (data haven, web server, investigator questions, formating discs, etc).
Google groups searches on the author's names bring up more messages like these.
_IF_ you read the article you should have clicked the link to this article,titled "Bin Laden: Steganography Master?"
For those who don't know "... steganography, is the practice of embedding secret messages in other messages --
in a way that prevents an observer from learning that anything unusual is taking place. Encryption, by contrast, relies on ciphers or codes to scramble a message." (quoted from the wired article).
Its a good article. Seeing steganographyin (more obvious) use is kinda weird. Check out some of the results of this google search. Read a few of the first hits and see what you notice.
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I can't begin to speculate about what they could be talking about. Your guess is as good as mine. It looks, to me, like this thing that generates the gibberish is using some standard dictionary file. There a bunch of words that a standard dictionary wouldn't recognize and are thus unchanged. These words stand out a bit.
(IPaddr, PGP, DEA, ROMs, ISDNs, etc.)
This encoding doesn't _look_ very sophisticated to my untrained eye. It leaves some phrases that give clues. (data haven, web server, investigator questions, formating discs, etc).
Google groups searches on the author's names bring up more messages like these.
*shrug* ?
For those who don't know "... steganography, is the practice of embedding secret messages in other messages --
in a way that prevents an observer from learning that anything unusual is taking place. Encryption, by contrast, relies on ciphers or codes to scramble a message." (quoted from the wired article).
Its a good article. Seeing steganographyin (more obvious) use is kinda weird. Check out some of the results of this google search. Read a few of the first hits and see what you notice.
Phil