Secrets behind Al Qai'da website...

Al-Qai'da uses Web as communications network. One day last October, an intelligence-community analyst noticed something strange about a radical Islamic Web site she had been monitoring for several months. A previously open, innocuous part of the site was suddenly blocked. She checked her notes, found the old address for the link and typed it in-to find an
otherwise empty page commanding in Arabic, MISSIONARIES ATTACK! Other "hidden" pages on the site included seemingly nonsensical phrases and quotations from the Qur'an-coded instructions for Al-Qai'da operatives and their supporters. U.S. intelligence discovered Al-Qai'da uses the Web as a communications network. Analysts believe Al-Qai'da uses prearranged phrases and symbols to direct its agents. An icon of an AK-47 can appear next to a photo of Osama bin Laden facing one direction one day and facing another direction the next. Colors of icons can change as well. Messages can be hidden on pages inside sites with no links to them, or placed openly in chat rooms. The messages and patterns of symbols are given to analysts at the CIA and National Security Agency to decipher.

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this is actually a good test for those who are aspiring to be a "cyber detective" or "Profiler" i find it quite interesting.. who knows what one could find in the website.. secrets that lie behind the html source code... or in the webpage itself..

This reeks. I'd wanna do a whois on that site or a netcraft.com lookup. :)

If you want to throw some fiction in there, try reading The Bear and The Dragon by Tom Clancy. He has a fanciful idea of how a couple lines of code hidden in a software upgrade is used to spy on the chinese.

There are many islamic websites that act as community boards etc. but that are actually meeting points to recruit people. In Holland we have www.maroc.nl
The secret service is investigating, and everytime when the news says something about the website suddenly they're down for "maintenance"

yea here is another one that is "Temporarly Down" www.saudi-binladin-group.com

Im probably gonna have the feds knockin at my door for looking for these sites but oh well

Registrant:
Saudi Binladin Group (SAUDI-BINLADIN-GROUP2-DOM)
Prince Abdullah Street
Jeddah, 21492
SA

Domain Name: SAUDI-BINLADIN-GROUP.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
Lumsden, Philip (PLP239) [email protected]
Arq Limited
The Old Post Office
George Street
Bath, BA1 2EB
UK
01224 312 391

Record last updated on 11-Sep-2000. -->hmmm...
Record expires on 11-Sep-2001. -->hmmm...
Record created on 11-Sep-2000. -->hmmm...
Database last updated on 19-Oct-2001 00:59:00 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS0-S.DNS.PIPEX.NET 158.43.129.83
NS1-S.DNS.PIPEX.NET 158.43.193.83

kewl.. interesting.. is this a "whois" result?

yea it is. are the dates just a coincidence ? I think not

holy ****!

errr... I just did a quick Whois on that same addy, but I came up with some completely different information:



Domain saudi-binladin-group.com

Date Registered: 10/27/2001
Date Modified: 10/27/2001
Expiry Date: 10/27/2002
DNS1: ns8.san.yahoo.com
DNS2: ns9.san.yahoo.com

Registrant

Mr Christopher Curry
none
chris curry
REMOVED INFORMATION TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT. IT'S NOT LIKE YOU COULDN'T LOOK IT UP YOURSELVES ;)

Registrar: NameScout.com


So err, where did you get your whois from Euclid? Mine came straight from NetSol, not saying that mine is the correct one or not... just wondering why the two different bits of info on a whois.




El Diablo

hmmm im sure with all them web defacers and web crackers, one of them is bound to find something interesting..

I did a search and the result was identical to El_Diablo in many different whois lookup providers.
Euclid could you tell when did you get that information, since that time they could change a lot of things.

Isn't this referred to as a "drop dead." That is, one of mnay forms of "secure communication over open forums" - they can take many forms, though there are no rules... a USENET posting... a bounced email message... a SPAM... a "mistaken" URL retrieved from a particular website. Use your imagination...

Again... things spoken of elsewhere... Peter Wright's "Spycatcher" is one of the better, more well-known literary works with such examples in it.

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Originally posted here by El Diablo
errr... I just did a quick Whois on that same addy, but I came up with some completely different information:

Domain saudi-binladin-group.com

Date Registered: 10/27/2001
Date Modified: 10/27/2001
Expiry Date: 10/27/2002

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Actually, pretty simple answer... take a closer look at the first post... it's from 2001.

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Database last updated on 19-Oct-2001 00:59:00 EDT.

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For completeness, and clarity however:

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Record last updated on 11-Sep-2000. -->hmmm...
Record expires on 11-Sep-2001. -->hmmm...
Record created on 11-Sep-2000. -->hmmm...
Database last updated on 19-Oct-2001 00:59:00 EDT.

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