Are terrorists using eBay to send secret messages?????

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Why would Al Queda use ebay? If you think about it, it would be much easier to simply send an encrypted email. Email will only work when you have a defined recipient. When you’re dealing with blind cells, you don’t know where your cells are or even who the members are. That’s how Al Queda works. A cell system means you never directly communicate with your cells. If this is going down, they’re communicating with cells in the Western World, not in Afghanistan or Pakistan. They could be using eBay as a "blind drop signal," so that any knowing cell recipient could pick it up anywhere with no trace. Email leaves a trace. In the world of espionage, a "blind drop signal" is sort of like a billboard that only others "in the know" can see. However, it looks totally innocuous to anyone else. Email, however, is like a telephone call. It leaves a trail that can be traced. KGB spies in the US did something similar during the Cold War with classified ads in major newspapers. They would run ads for a particular type of car and the phone number and price was a code that gave a certain signal for a meeting or a physical drop. Robert Hanssen, the FBI agent who was a spy for the KGB, did this for nearly 20 years. The KGB never actually met him face to face and had no idea who he was, except that he worked inside the US government and had a super-secret clearance. The Soviets thought he was in the CIA. So, today, the same thing could be done with eBay. It’s very plausible that an underground organization could use eBay with digitally encrypted photos, as the article suggests. Whether anyone actually is, however, will probably only be a matter of speculation.

i’m tellin’ ya it’s the christian book with the turd think about it! robert

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I don’t know whether this was discussed here before as I only check in from time to time. Nonetheless, this is an interesting article about terrorists possibly using eBay as a communication mechanism: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/17/steganography/

Here’s one example: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2124406489 a. linklurker

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I read it and find it rather difficult to suspend disbelief. — Mac (doogle)

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You ever get the feeling reporters have run out of things to write about?

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I don’t know whether this was discussed here before as I only check in from time to time. Nonetheless, this is an interesting article about terrorists possibly using eBay as a communication mechanism: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/17/steganography/ I read it and find it rather difficult to suspend disbelief. —

i think we just got our explanation of the christian book with the turd pic robert

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Why would Al Queda use ebay? If you think about it, it would be much easier to simply send an encrypted email. I mean if the US gov. is monitoring Al Queda’s outgoing email, don’t you think they would also monitor their web site access and notice massive ebay sales of American culture items (pez dispensers, etc.)??? Which brings up an even better question, who is the best Internet Service Provide in the Tora Bora mountain range? Do you suppose they use DSL or Cable? Give me a break, I think the media must have a contest going to see who can make the public most gullable.

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I don’t know whether this was discussed here before as I only check in from time to time. Nonetheless, this is an interesting article about terrorists possibly using eBay as a communication mechanism: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/17/steganography/ I read it and find it rather difficult to suspend disbelief. — i think we just got our explanation of the christian book with the turd pic robert

lol

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Yeah, that’s what all the Beanie Baby auctions were about – all part of Bin Laden’s bunch. -*MORT*-

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Why would Al Queda use ebay? If you think about it, it would be much easier to simply send an encrypted email.

Email will only work when you have a defined recipient. When you’re dealing with blind cells, you don’t know where your cells are or even who the members are. That’s how Al Queda works. A cell system means you never directly communicate with your cells. If this is going down, they’re communicating with cells in the Western World, not in Afghanistan or Pakistan. They could be using eBay as a "blind drop signal," so that any knowing cell recipient could pick it up anywhere with no trace. Email leaves a trace. In the world of espionage, a "blind drop signal" is sort of like a billboard that only others "in the know" can see. However, it looks totally innocuous to anyone else. Email, however, is like a telephone call. It leaves a trail that can be traced. KGB spies in the US did something similar during the Cold War with classified ads in major newspapers. They would run ads for a particular type of car and the phone number and price was a code that gave a certain signal for a meeting or a physical drop. Robert Hanssen, the FBI agent who was a spy for the KGB, did this for nearly 20 years. The KGB never actually met him face to face and had no idea who he was, except that he worked inside the US government and had a super-secret clearance. The Soviets thought he was in the CIA. So, today, the same thing could be done with eBay. It’s very plausible that an underground organization could use eBay with digitally encrypted photos, as the article suggests. Whether anyone actually is, however, will probably only be a matter of speculation.

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