But a few of the others were a little quicker to pick up on why the app might be used by those wanting to send less-than-innocent messages (though the majority of users say they use it primarily to share funny content).
Voters do not need a repeat of operatives from both parties running nonprofit shadow operations, fobbing off the most vicious attack ads as innocent issue messages.
At first, Team Trump dismissed the call with the Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen as an innocent congratulatory message.
The boy is Morad, a young Arab from a village in northern Israel who, in 2006 at age 17, sent an innocent text message to a girl in his class and was savagely beaten by her brother and his friends.
A San Francisco official said he was taken aback by the allegation, given the forthright way its committee dealt with innocent e-mail messages between Olympic athletes in contrast to what he called organized lobbying by the New York committee in violation of ethics rules.
Certainly, some of these Twitter "feuds" are heightened by media attention and the public's rabid appetite for celeb gossip -- which can blow a seemingly innocent 140-character message out of proportion.
On Tuesday, General Allen was caught up in the scandal, when the Pentagon said that it was investigating whether he had engaged in "inappropriate communication" with Ms. Kelley; associates of the general say the messages were innocent, and President Obama voiced support for him.
The security requirement in steganography ultimately means that no such detection method should exist that would be able to tell carriers with hidden messages from innocent ones with a significant reliability.
The problem, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Katzmann, is this: Al Qaeda training manuals advocate sending coded messages through innocent-seeming media, and Reid is a confessed Al Qaeda member.
And "flaming" — the near-psychotic reaming out of innocent strangers on Internet message boards — is merely a keyboard-based version of the method by which New Yorkers have always conversed.
