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Hidden on the Web.(Brief Article)
One day last October, a U.S. intelligence-community analyst noticed something strange about a radical Islamist Web site she had been monitoring. 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 a 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 Qaeda operatives and their supporters. Analysts believe that Al Qaeda uses prearranged coded 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 another 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 try to figure out.
The operators of these sites, working from Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, the gulf states and Britain, are sophisticated in their computer tradecraft. "These guys are no fools," says an intelligence source.
Analysts say they have seen "surges" in Web traffic, in many cases ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Hidden on the Web.(Brief Article)