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First Steganographic Image Found In The Wild

Posted by timothy on from the monkeying-with-images dept.

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."

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  1. Super Troll by Outland+Traveller · · Score: 4, Redundant

    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.

  2. For the impatient by Sir_Real · · Score: 2, Redundant

    The image on terraserver that abc encoded. Clarification: This was NOT a terrorist encoded picture. This was planted by ABC and found and decoded.