Terrorists use child pornography to encrypt secret data

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Terrorists use child pornography to encrypt secret data

29th October 2008

The investigation of The Times revealed the link between child pornography and terrorist underworld, which became evident after the recent police raids in Britain.
During the anti-terrorism raids, the British police found a variety of images, containing child abuse. It is anticipated that the pornographic images are built-in with a special code, and pedophiles` sites are used to secure the exchange of encrypted information between terrorists.
British special services are concerned with encountered trend and are working on it: it must contribute to disclosure of methods used by terrorists. It is expected that soon specialists in child welfare are going to track terrorists. Now they, among other things, monitor sites containing child pornography.
Concerns about the fate of young people of the United Kingdom, professing Islam, are becoming more serious: Muslim children may be victims of older terrorists using porn snapshots for their purposes.
Nevertheless, it is not completely clear whether the terrorists used child pornography for personal purposes, or for secret exchange of information via the Internet: in one of their shelters police found less than a dozen of indecent images, in the other there were about 40 thousand of them.
The Times also knows that when investigating the terrorist attacks of September, the 11th, child pornography was found on the computers of mosque prior in Milan, who concurrently was engaged in recruiting personnel for Al-Qaeda. Italian police believes that child pornography had contained some encrypted secret information.