Maybe the subtitle should be: \u00c2\u00a0How the War on Terror, is over….<\/p>\n
\nWhen a suspected al-Qaeda member was arrested in Berlin in May of 2011, he was found with a memory card with a password-protected folder\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand the files within it were hidden. But, as the\u00c2\u00a0German newspaper\u00c2\u00a0Die Zeit<\/em>reports<\/a>, computer forensics experts from the German Federal Criminal Police (BKA) eventually uncovered its contents\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhat appeared to be a pornographic video called “KickAss.”<\/p>\n
Within that video, they discovered 141 separate text files, containing what officials claim are documents detailing al-Qaeda operations and plans for future operations\u00e2\u20ac\u201damong them, three entitled “Future Works,” “Lessons Learned,” and “Report on Operations.”<\/p>\n
So just how does one store a terrorist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home study library in a pirated porn video file? In this case the files had been hidden (unencrypted) within the video file through a well-known approach for concealing messages in plain sight: steganography.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Read the Rest of ArsTechnica’s look at how al-Qaeda hid secret documents in a porn video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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