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First Steganographic Image Found In The Wild
Niels Provos writes: "After months of searching for steganographic content on eBay and
elsewhere -- downloading millions of images, we were finally able to
find an image with a stegangraphic message hidden in it. Stegdetect and Stegbreak made short process with it. It took less
than a second to compute the secret key necessary to extract the
hidden message. Two commands at the prompt, and we found the hidden
message to be an image of B-52 scrapyard. Right off Terraserver."
it was fabricated and discussed on national television. it's a bit of a stretch to claim it was "found in the wild".
This is a self-referential sig
I can see now that the government will try very hard to ban pictures or picture reading devices so no one puts copywrited quotes in pictures. Quick someone shut-down picture serch engines for distributing encrypted work!
The linked page says that the steg. image found "in the wild" was intentionally done as a demo of steganography and publicized on TV.
Someone please take this article out. It's an embarassment.
I thought about putting stego images in all of my pictures in eBay auctions. You know, something like:
"BID!! Bid Higher!! You know you want to!! Don't let that other guy win!!!!"
PK: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0
The image on terraserver that abc encoded. Clarification: This was NOT a terrorist encoded picture. This was planted by ABC and found and decoded.
I don't quite follow you.
Evil bad terrorist will use cutting edge computers, stego his message into an Ebay auction picture, and decide his cause isn't just because of the Terms of Use?
Put down the rose-coloured glasses.
Woot w00t w007.