From: pstemari@bismark.cbis.com (Paul J. Ste. Marie)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 06:44:18 PDT
To: grendel@netaxs.com
Subject: NATIONAL SECURITY PORN RISK
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>  "Computer at Nuclear Lab Used for Access to Porn"
> [ snip ]
> -- Excerpt --
> One computer expert, who requested anonymity, said there might be more
> to the incident than meets the eye.  The expert suggested that the hard-core
> pornography may be a cover for an ultra-sophisticated espionage program,
> in which a "sniffer" program combs through other Livermore computers,
> encodes the passwords and accounts it finds, and then hides them within
> the pornographic images, perhaps to be downloaded by foreign agents.
> -- End excerpt --
> 
> 	It's a Steganography reference. This sets off my warning bells -- 
> why would they explicitly mention the Stego technique, unless possibly it 
> was used in the porn ring there? Granted, Stego makes good journalism 
> fodder ("Hide your encrypted nuclear bomb plans in porn GIFs from the 
> Internet!"), but it's definitely not as sexy [sic] as "Taxpayer-funded 
> computers used in secret porn ring!" Anybody know exactly what was going 
> on at LLL? We can't get papers easily up here. :(

Of course, any machine with classified info on it would neither be on
the net nor would it be connected to one that was.

	--Paul