[LINK] friday frivolity

[Roger Clarke]

"Ann Moffatt" <moffatt.a at bigpond.com>:
>after his performance on abc tv last night in catalyst, i can see 
>why our roger clarke isn't a multi millionaire consultant!!
>
>fancy talking down you area of expertise roger!! don't you know that 
>consultants are supposed to talk UP the hype!! ;-)

I missed it, but someone else drew it to my attention last night.

I'm not sure it was worth a couple of hours out of that particular day.

This is the sum total from:
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1320215.htm

"IT Security consultant, Roger Clarke says steganography does have 
many legitimate uses.

"Roger Clarke
"Well examples like sending secret messages of love to one another, 
things like putting digital watermarks on music, digital watermarks 
on pictures. This is one of the primary ways that film studios and 
music producers think they are going to put a fingerprint on each 
piece of digital music or film that they send out.
...
"Narration
"But not everybody is convinced. Roger Clarke believes the threat of 
steganography is being 'beaten up'...

[So now I have the official status of 'not everybody'?]

"Roger Clarke
"The original publication which suggested back in 2001 that 
terrorists were using steganography has never been supported by any 
evidence whatsoever. And it's been traced back to a company that 
stole, that sold steganographic software."

[So much for protecting interviewees that accidentally blubber]

"Roger Clarke
"If you ban steganography because of the bad guys or bad uses of 
steganography, then how on earth do you enable its use for other 
purposes? What we should be focussing on is that if it's a bad thing 
for terrorists to talk to one another about terrorism perhaps that's 
what should be made illegal. And pardon me if I'm wrong but I thought 
we had laws that made it illegal to consort with other people and 
plan acts of terrorism."

-- 
Roger Clarke              http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/
			            
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Visiting Professor in the Baker Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre, UNSW
Visiting Professor in the eCommerce Program, University of Hong Kong
Visiting Fellow in Computer Science,  Australian National University