Image Steganography and Global Terrorism

This paper informs the reader how an innocent looking digital image hides a deadly terrorist plan. It analyses the strengths of image steganography and the reasons why terrorists are relying on it. It also aims to generate interest among the scientific community about Image steganography so that experts from multiple dis- ciplines may join hands for devising better steganalysis techniques against the global terrorism. In this paper a basic digital image is analyzed and based on this analysis an LSB based steganographic algorithm is designed. Using this algorithm a software is developed and its performance is compared with various other steganograph- ic tools available on the internet. The result of this comparison explains us why steganography is so much pre- ferred by terrorists. Various images and image related tables used in this paper are generated using Matlab Si- mulation Environment.