| 摘要 |
This invention relates to distributed monitoring of networks for steganographically encrypted or encoded messages. Terrorists or criminal groups may use stenography to encode or hide messages in image data or other encrypted data. Law enforcement agencies seek to monitor the distributed networks for the hidden information. However, the size of the Internet exceeds the capacity of law enforcement resources. A method and system are described that use various computational devices distributed about the network to individually monitor network locations. Suspect data is documented on a set of servers. These servers then alert analysts to the presence of suspicious data. In one exemplary embodiment, a common interpreted programming language is used to program a set of instructions that may be performed by various devices distributed about the Internet to monitor network locations for encoded or hidden communications.
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