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Battling Steganography
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.
If steganography can be made "turnkey", it'll work
for most of today's privacy requirements.
You might think that it'd be easy to detect,
or simple to prevent, but that's simply not true.
Unless someone lists all the ways in which one
can hide information, and a fantastically fast
approach to testing any given communication on the
net against those techniques. Otherwise, to
read a steganographically-encoded message,
each recipient will need to figure out which of
all the messages intercepted even includes the
data you're looking for, and what was used in
this particular instance. Hell, one might even
have two or more different techniques applied
in a single message. Like this message does.
Sort of.
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