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.

Comments

Isn't that the point?

[datawar]

The whole point of stenography is that people CAN'T spot the fact that you're using it!

That effective, eh?

[germinatoras]

Study Finds Low Use Of Steganography On Internet

Just goes to show how good it is.

Or maybe

[elliotj]

The study found a high use of very effective steganography...which is why they found a low use of ineffective stego for their study.

Hmm?

Steganography detection

[Todd Knarr]

So they failed to detect steganography in the images. Erm, isn't that the point of steganograpy, that you can't detect that there's a message there?

Problem Solved

[Marcus Erroneous]

Linux's elegance used to solve this particular problem:

rm -rf /bin/laden

You can bring the boys home now. ;)