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06/10/2002:
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Steganography: Hidden Data - Computerworld
"An engineering firm suspected that an insider was transmitting valuable intellectual
property out of its network. After checking mail logs, investigators found the smoking
gun: two e-mails with harmless-looking image attachments sent by an engineer. Turns
out, the images were hiding two of the company's most precious engineering specifications.
The technique used to hide the specifications inside image files is a high-tech
version of a process called steganography."
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03/07/2002:
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Global raid breaks advanced
internet child porn group - OUT-LAW News
"'Operation Twins' was the result of a 12 month investigation by law enforcement
authorities in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, the US and the UK. The operation focused on a criminal organisation
called the 'Shadowz Brotherhood,' whose activities included the production and distribution
of child pornography and real-time abuse of children. The group used encryption
and also steganography, the practice of hiding of one file within another for extraction
by the intended recipient."
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