[media] Numbers Stations Now on the 'Net
 

Seen on the CBS Evening News Tuesday night:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in636626.shtml


Tracking Terror In Tangled Web

LONDON, Aug. 17, 2004

(CBS) If the pen is mightier than the sword, the keyboard has become
the new weapon in the war of terror, promoting it and fighting it.

.... One site, which pops up and then disappears regularly on servers
around the world, shows Osama bin Laden and a map of Manhattan.

It contains "red sites (that) appear to be identifying targets for
being attacked," says Neil Doyle, a new kind of private detective.

And what worries the freelance cyber-terrorist buster about the site,
one of thousands he's discovered, are the numbers running across the
page.

"The repeated sequence at the top there and it's thought that, well,
that does match up to a known al Qaeda cryptography method," says
Doyle.

Doyle believes the site's code could be a means of command and
control.
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