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To: arno who wrote (2823)	2/6/2001 2:04:42 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 15481

dailynews.yahoo.com Tuesday February 6 10:21 AM ET Extremists Said to Be Scrambling Messages on Web Photos Reuters Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Muslim extremists, including Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), are posting encrypted -- or scrambled -- photographs and messages on popular Web sites and using them to plan attacks against the United States and its allies, USA TODAY reported Tuesday. The newspaper quoted U.S. law enforcement officials and experts as saying that extremists were using e-mail, computerized files, and encryption to hide maps and photographs of their targets, and instructions for carrying out attacks, on sports chat rooms, pornographic bulletin boards and other Web sites. The Internet has become a new form of the ``dead drop,'' a Cold War-era term for where spies left information, the paper quoted officials as saying. They said the messages were scrambled using free encryption programs set up by groups that advocate privacy on the Internet. Those same programs also can hide maps and photographs in an existing image on selected Web sites. The e-mails and images can only be decrypted using a ``private key,'' or code, selected by the recipient. In one particularly cryptic passage, extremists posing as Internet stock expert Jorj X. McKie posted messages under the code "NAZWAG", which when decoded into Arabic apparently means "Down with U.S." The messages also contained curious graphs of x's and o's which could potentially be used to target sites important to American culture. Included among the targets were numerous outlets of Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken. McKie could not be reached for comment. Officials of Tricon Restaurants were also unavailable. <g>