Re: Steganography and Steganalysis

["Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>]

andrew m. boardman says:
>    Someone is probably doing steganography in netnews and/or mailing
>    lists right now!  (Besides cypherpunks, I mean.)  How would we find them?
> 
> Food for thought: that, at least as of recently, the NSA bought weekly
> dumps of all usenet articles on tape.  I highly doubt they were for
> their reading pleasure...

Many organizations buy complete dumps of usenet -- its a way of
getting a newsfeed if your organization is too paranoid to let you get
a network connection. I don't know if the NSA was such an
organization, but it would not suprise me.

Perry