Sporkman
June 30th, 2010, 11:29 PM
Russian Spies Hid Secret Codes in Online Photos
livescience.com – Wed Jun 30, 12:01 pm ET
The alleged Russian spies recently arrested by the FBI are accused of encoding messages into otherwise innocuous pictures, marking the first confirmed use of this high-tech form of data concealment in real life, experts say.
The accused spies posted the seemingly mundane photos on publicly accessible websites, but then extracted coded messages from the computer data of the pictures, according to the criminal complaint filed by the FBI. Although computer scientists have theorized about the existence of this communication technique for over a decade, this is the first publicly acknowledged use of the technique...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100630/sc_livescience/russianspieshidsecretcodesinonlinephotos
livescience.com – Wed Jun 30, 12:01 pm ET
The alleged Russian spies recently arrested by the FBI are accused of encoding messages into otherwise innocuous pictures, marking the first confirmed use of this high-tech form of data concealment in real life, experts say.
The accused spies posted the seemingly mundane photos on publicly accessible websites, but then extracted coded messages from the computer data of the pictures, according to the criminal complaint filed by the FBI. Although computer scientists have theorized about the existence of this communication technique for over a decade, this is the first publicly acknowledged use of the technique...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100630/sc_livescience/russianspieshidsecretcodesinonlinephotos