Chapter 43. PONG pages 190 - 195
"The lobby bar was full again."[...]
"This is a matter in which possession of information accounts to involvement. Do you understand?" Hubertus Bigend
Chapter 43. PONG
Bigend tells Hollis that Bobby’s employers have given him two tasks: one, to track the "Flying Dutchman of shipping containers" where Bobby fishes out an intermittent, encrypted signal among many others, and two, to "fake evidence that he still hasn’t found the signal" which he encrypts andstenographicallysteganographically embeds into music on the drives of iPods that he ships to Costa Rica.Bigend has learned that the iPods are reshipped from Costa Rica to New York, probably to unknown "retired U.S. intelligence officers." He has also learned that the intermediary in Costa Rica has not received the packages, instead giving instructions to the post office box to forward the packages directly, probably out of fear of the "whoever owns the contents of that container." [761 characters]
I am still intrigued about how the false information planted on the iPod is meant to be read by those who think that they have intercepted it, if strong encryption is used and it is hidden using steganography.