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.

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I'm using it extensively.

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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.

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