stenography and not realize it. it's virtually unbreakable unless you had the key. >> one of the major breaks came when the new york field office began to piece together information from their physical searches which they had conducted in 2005. >> looking at that computer with stenography on it, there was a password 27 characters long for security. >> in reviewing the information notebooks, they found a strange system of numbers and letters which they believed to be computer keystrokes. through trial and error, they repeatedly entered these characters and ultimately entered what was the 27-digit password. so if your company i.t. guy tells you don't write down your password, that's why. >> for us, that was a game changer. once we got our own version of their system, we could run a parallel version and read the