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Re: Behind Al-Qaeda's I.T. Department...
From what ive heard in the past they do things like post qoutes from various texts koran and many other books both religious and non where a member of the cell will have a copy with extra text or a single word on the page from the qoute.
Not a very complex form of sending a secret message but damn effective and hard to beat if not impossible.
It would be like me sendign you a copy or the book fire and then saying i think the best qoute from the book is when they were eating the beef stew. And the one guy gets bad cramps and says "omg i think im going to have a cow" To the outside observer they may not 1 know what fire is about and never read it and 2 they would not have a copy. If they got a copy and read it they would not have the extra text i included in my copy.
Even if i used words from the book and even if i referenced them in my message/posting It could still take hours or days to figure out exactly what I was sending in that secret message.
Like i said a damn simple way to do it but next to impossible to crack at least in time. So yeh these guys are not fools by any means. Thats what makes them so damn dangerous.
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Good read thanks.
from link
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While al-Qaeda and its sympathizers see the Internet as another weapon in the hands of radical Islam, it is in fact "a double-edged sword," Moran says. Terrorists can recruit, propagandize, even exchange tactical information, he says, but they are also vulnerable. "They can be tracked down."
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For example, if al-Qaeda ever mastered heavy encrypting of communications, he says, it could lead to major problems. "And al-Qaeda might only need that info to stay encrypted for 24 hours. NSA (the National Security Agency) might be able to decode it, but maybe not fast enough."
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Not all observers believe that al-Qaeda's Internet operations are junior-grade. Some experts, such as terrorist researcher Evan Kohlmann, have said that al-Qaeda is quite sophisticated in its use of the Internet. And another terrorism expert, Bruce Hoffman of the Rand Corporation, recently testified before Congress that not enough is being done to counter al-Qaeda's propaganda on the Net.
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|  »www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?s···0C4PE9Z0 from »digg.com/tech_news/Behind_Al_Qae···partment ...
"There are real people, in real space, maintaining what is, in effect, al-Qaeda's I.T. department. Last October, the most important member of that group so far -- the man who has been called "the Godfather of cyber-terrorism" -- was arrested. He is a 22-year-old Muslim immigrant to Great Britain named Younis Tsouli."
Also, mentions some security and privacy stuff.
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