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Study Finds Low Use Of Steganography On Internet
schnippy writes: "New Scientist reports on new study from the University of Michigan that argues that steganography (the science of obfuscating communications) is not in wide use, or at least not on the 2 million images they scanned on eBay. Earlier this year, USA Today reported that Bin Laden was using steganography to disguise his communications. Full study is available here. Wonder how long before someone sets up a distributed computing client to help search for Bin Laden's secret communications? :p" Niels Provos' research was mentioned in Slashback not long ago, and this article is based on the same research.
That's why it's called stegnography! You jackass!
We need to use this to OUR advantage to make sure that we, the citizens of the world, keep control instead of the Corporations and Governments.
Beer is still causing my turds to get a low score. Today's turd started
off well, but got sloppy at the end. The only thing saving it from a 3
rating was it's length. It was very long, about 45 cm; I think that
if it were solid it would be 55 cm easily. Due to it's losing coheasion
it looked like a club. It was tapered on one end (like all good turd
are), but the other end looked like a odd shaped lump. I think the salad
I had for lunch helped with respect to the volume of the turd. I dropped
this one at home, so my co-workers were unable to enjoy it. But, since it
scored so low, that might be a good thing.
How can you be sure you find them all? Maybe you only detect the ones that are detectable? If a JPEG is steganographiclly encoded in a forest, does it make a sound?
PS: The period at the end of this sentence is steganographically encoded with a plot to steal the worlds cheese. Or is it this one? Wait, that was a question mark, not a period! Damn, now I forgot where I put it... Even better steganography?
So that's what that image is for, it contains Bin Laden's secret messages! And here we thought it was trolls...
Our precious slashdot users scream out for vengeance:
1. Kill all Trolls.
2. Kill all Sporks.
3. Kill all Monkeys.
4. Kill all Trollmans.
5. Kill all Buttfuckers.
6. Kill all AC fuckheads.
7. Kill all Jeff Ks.
8. Kill all SpanishInquisitions.
9. Nuke Adequacy to hell.
10. Nuke Geekizoid again.
11. Death to Goatsex.
I piss on First Posts. I wipe my ass with "If I ever meet you..." I spit on "*BSD is dying."
Anything with a sufficiently low signal to noise ratio could be considered steganography. For example, slashdot is a huge steganographic source. I hear that some people hide news for nerds among all the links to goat se* and first posts.
I've been putting my secret communiques on slashdot for years. They get modded down as offtopic and are quickly hidden from the every prying eyes of my enemies. I just email my cohorts the message ID's and they go look them up.
MUHAHAHAA!
there are 2 kinds of people. those who divide people into 2 kinds, and those who don't.
One weekend, we were planning on hitting the mall, but Katz is on probation and can't go. We try to talk him into it, but he doesn't even want to say "mall" or "young boys" over the phone because he thinks they might be tapping his phone.
So what we do is come up with a plan to obfuscate our communications. In place of "mall", we use "Columbine". In place of "young boys", we use "geeks".
Now Katz can communicate with us about our plans to hit the mall without letting on what we're really talking about.
Example:
"Hey, I was thinking it might be a good idea to revisit Columbine and gets the opinions of several geeks today."
Means:
"Hey, let's go the mall and chat up some young boys."
We were all surprised at how well this worked. In fact, Katz is so pleased he now sends us messages publicly in his articles. Everyone thinks he is writing pseudo-insightful social commentary but he's really just making plans for the weekend.
So now you know. And knowing is half the battle. The other half involves lots of bullets, heavy artillery, and bleeding.
Got a full tank of hot grits and a penis bird in the glove box.
very punny
The poster comment compression is evil by the way.
What the hell does it mean when you dream that your friend squeezes your balls and it feels REALLY uncomfortable?
how many pics on your hd have terrorist plots embeded in them?
Dear stupid moderator:
this person made a joke related to the topic of the post.
Ban graphical Images
Ban Encryption without backdoors
Ban Closed doors
Ban Privacy
Ban the internet
Ban computer disks
I think I've heard this somewhere before
Bravo, young troll :)