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Battling Steganography

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-would-you-want-to dept.

An anonymous reader submitted a fairly thin little story about a researcher who is Battling Steganography. I can certainly see the appeal of the study but it really seems like a needle in a hay stack sort of project. And when you actually can detect one technique, new and better techniques will crop up and take its place.

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  1. Who writes these captions ? by dingbat_hp · · Score: 3, Funny
    ... The secondary image, woven into the primary one, would not be possible to detect by peeling up one corner of the main image (as has been done here merely for illustrative purposes).

    Excuse me ? Did I wander into The Onion by mistake ?

  2. F u cn rd ths ... by graybeard · · Score: 3, Funny

    u cn b a stngrfr!

  3. Best way to avoid scrutiny with a hidden message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Name your attachment letter.doc.pif and send it with the message "I send you this file in order to have your advice"

  4. Battling Stenography? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wouldn't good voice recognition software help?

  5. Re:Wait a minute by angst_ridden_hipster · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's it.

    Go ahead and make the nudists look like criminals.

    ;)

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  6. Re:Wait a minute by Dyolf+Knip · · Score: 4, Funny
    Go ahead and make the nudists look like criminals

    We have to! It's for the children!

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    Dyolf Knip
  7. Re:This could be fun... by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
    > I imagine there could potentially be millions of hidden messages out there that noone knows about.

    ...but HipCrime would still be an idiot trying to do a DOS attack on USENET through open SOCKS proxies ;)