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Didn't the 9/11 hijackers communicate by uploading images of basketball players to sports discussion boards?

by progre 6y ago

arminiusreturns 6y ago
Source if you have it please.
- stordoff 6y ago
  Suggestions of coded messages/steganography were made, but I'm struggling to find anything concrete: > Suspected ringleader Mohamed Atta was seen repeatedly by witnesses using his Hotmail account at public libraries in Florida to surf the Internet, downloading what appeared to be pictures of children and scenes of the Middle East.[1] > Many of the hijackers were frequent visitors to libraries and internet cafes in Florida, where they are believed to have received their final orders in coded message.[2] Pre-9/11: > Through weeks of interviews with U.S. law-enforcement officials and experts, USA TODAY has learned new details of how extremists hide maps and photographs of terrorist targets — and post instructions for terrorist activities — on sports chat rooms, pornographic bulletin boards and other popular Web sites.[3] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20011005232014/https://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/dailynews/primetime_011004_steganography.html https://web.archive.org/web/20011005232014/https://abcnews.g... [2] https://www.theregister.com/2001/10/11/iomart_cashes_in_on_wtc/ https://www.theregister.com/2001/10/11/iomart_cashes_in_on_w... ([1] and [2] found via https://www.giac.org/paper/gsec/3494/steganography-age-terrorism/102620 https://www.giac.org/paper/gsec/3494/steganography-age-terro...) [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20030606200613/http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-02-05-binladen-side.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20030606200613/http://www.usatod... (found via https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11308369.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11308369.pdf)
  - arminiusreturns 6y ago
    I wouldn't doubt they used stenography too, was just curious if you had a source. Thanks for the effort.
    - coldpie 6y ago
      Nitpick intended to be helpful, "steganography" is hiding data within other data, "stenography" basically just means writing something down. Confusingly similar terms.

Didn't the 9/11 hijackers communicate by uploading images of basketball players to sports discussion boards?

by progre 6y ago

Didn't the 9/11 hijackers communicate by uploading images of basketball players to sports discussion boards?

arminiusreturns 6y ago

Source if you have it please.

stordoff 6y ago
Suggestions of coded messages/steganography were made, but I'm struggling to find anything concrete: > Suspected ringleader Mohamed Atta was seen repeatedly by witnesses using his Hotmail account at public libraries in Florida to surf the Internet, downloading what appeared to be pictures of children and scenes of the Middle East.[1] > Many of the hijackers were frequent visitors to libraries and internet cafes in Florida, where they are believed to have received their final orders in coded message.[2] Pre-9/11: > Through weeks of interviews with U.S. law-enforcement officials and experts, USA TODAY has learned new details of how extremists hide maps and photographs of terrorist targets — and post instructions for terrorist activities — on sports chat rooms, pornographic bulletin boards and other popular Web sites.[3] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20011005232014/https://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/dailynews/primetime_011004_steganography.html https://web.archive.org/web/20011005232014/https://abcnews.g... [2] https://www.theregister.com/2001/10/11/iomart_cashes_in_on_wtc/ https://www.theregister.com/2001/10/11/iomart_cashes_in_on_w... ([1] and [2] found via https://www.giac.org/paper/gsec/3494/steganography-age-terrorism/102620 https://www.giac.org/paper/gsec/3494/steganography-age-terro...) [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20030606200613/http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-02-05-binladen-side.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20030606200613/http://www.usatod... (found via https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11308369.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11308369.pdf)
- arminiusreturns 6y ago
  I wouldn't doubt they used stenography too, was just curious if you had a source. Thanks for the effort.
  - coldpie 6y ago
    Nitpick intended to be helpful, "steganography" is hiding data within other data, "stenography" basically just means writing something down. Confusingly similar terms.