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Hacktivismo to Release Steganography Tool
Anonymonkey writes: "According to this story at , a group called Hacktivismo will release a steganographic tool called Camera/Shy at H2K2 this year. Apparently, it will make it easy for persecuted political groups to hide messages in images. The group has links to the Cult of the Dead Cow, which is, of course, working on Peek-a-Booty."
what's wrong with the existing tool that i use to keep all my porn in my slashdot posts?
free (as in mp3s) electronic music
just another way to hide secret messages... dont we have enought of these already
What do they mean by persecuted anyway? One could argue that the Taliban/Al Qaeda are persecuted political groups...
Will it do anything differently than the rock-solid and famous OutGuess" ?
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
... this product is designed for non technical users... oh yah and you need IE5.0 or higher... i wonder what the good old feds are going to have to say about maybe giving some real encryption ro regular people...
personally i think this is a good project BUT once again im afraid we may have to defend it from the same old DMCA/PATRIOT nonesense...
unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep
Sometimes it isn't the content that gives you away, it's the fact that you're sending traffic between point A and point B, and B talks to C, D, and E.
That can be enough to tip off the wrong someone.
Likewise, if you start sending graphic files back and forth where you USED to be sending other types of traffic, whatever entity might be watching those transmissions is likely to catch on. Let's not even go INTO how you're sending MORE data rather than less. Me, I'd be shooting for a method that breaks the communication up, sends it in with a bunch of other garbage to multi-pointed destinations at random times, strongly encrypted en-route so sender and receiver are masked...
Oh wait, that sounds a lot like a mixmaster remailer.
And yes, I know, mixmaster and PGP are not an option for environments where the very use of same is enough to get you drawn and quartered.
According to Radio-Canada (sorry just in french), a witness heared the shooter screaming "He took my job!"
So maibe it's just a good ol' non-terrorist shooting in LA...
i'm sure the question on everyone's mind is 'are the tools going to be free as in software?'
aren't the sites that host these tools going to be the first sites to be filtered by oppresive governments and thus rendered unusable due to not being able to get them?
free (as in mp3s) electronic music
The only thing that is news in that article to me was that a) steonography is being used, and b) the hidden messages will be encrypted.
So, basically the author had to paste together some code for a front end gui that manages the stenographic encoding with the key based encryption.
I don't even see how this is going to change anthing or be relevant to those indivuals who use combinations of both at present time.
Although, I can see myself downloading this when it's released so I can send a test out. But c'mon...
dmarien
The phrase "Hi'tuk Mi'jobb" is Arabic for "I'm killing you, but I really want to kill your children in the name of Allah. Allah permits me to kill children in order to secure my place in heaven!"
It's a common mistake to make. I advocate going out now and shooting an islamic mongrel in order to make amends.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
I am afraid unless Hacktivismo is really careful and knows what they're doing, their program may get some human rights workers tortured and killed. By careful, I mean don't even mess with embedding messages in jpg images. It might be reasonably safe to embed them in audio or video streams at very low bit rates, like one bit per several seconds of 44 khz 16 bit PCM audio or mini-DV video. And even that would take sophisticated encoding to keep detection difficult.
Reference: Security Engineering by Ross Anderson, reviewed on Slashdot a few months ago.
Apparently, it will make it easy for persecuted political groups to hide messages in images.
Why just 'persecuted political groups'? (which I hope isn't another name for a terrorist organization). The article says that it is easy to use. Which means that you and I can communicate with each other securely, with no one eavesdropping. It's neither a good or bad thing, it's a tool. This tool can be used for good and bad.
I really think that this post was implying that terrorists will take advantage of this tool. Drop this terrorism crap. Terrorists use many other mundane things to cause damage, why not make a big deal about those items too.
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Now we should be able to hide from these guys.
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I always thought Bert was there just because Bert always looked like he had a lot of anger inside him. Kind of like Osama.
Now I can hide messages in my porn.
Certainly a nice toy, yeah, much like any other stego app.
But, what's the practical application? Surely traffic analysis makes stuff like this pretty lame for routine use? Yes, you can hide one message, or a few, but how do you have a conversation using this kind of technology and not stick out for emailing huge JPEGs back and forth?
What do you do? Have a competition to photoshop images? Run a porn site?
I'm just not convinced this is the way to go for real applications.
Hexayurt - open source refugee shelter,
Hmmm, does it seem strange that such a tool would only be available for IE 5.5+ on the windows platform?
Is this anything like that episode of the X-Files where the code for a kill switch was interlaced into the data on a CD-ROM's audio track? It'd be kinda cool to do that ...
Of course, there was also that Along came a Spider movie, where they were sending msn-style messages using this sort of technology ... that would also be kinda neat ...
(Or did I miss something? Is this about encoding the message into an image, then using the original image to "subtract" and see the message?)
You know, in some circles (especially Middle Eastern), groups such as Al Qaida, Islamic Jihad and Hamas are considered "persecuted political gruops". Please, be honest with yourselves, people. That's like saying that the sole and most widespread use of P2P file trading software is for trading of Free, copylefted media.
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." - George Bush
Funny, a Howard Stern fan called CNN pretending to be a witness... said that "an overweight white man with a ponytail" (a la Jackie the Jokeman Martling) "started screaming, 'He took my job! Artie took my job! Artie Lange took my job on the Howard Stern show!'" The CNN reporter was clueless until her producer buzzed her in the ear and told her that it was a crank call. Captain Janks used to be the best at this.
Aw, fuck it. Let's go bowling. - The Big Lebowski
Bond Good afternoon Q, what have you got for me today?
Q Ok pay attention Bond there have been some developments in secret codes since you last came through. I'd like to tell you about our latest wheeze for getting messages back to HQ by e-mailing pictures of Anna Kournikova.
Bond You mean the tennis player named after an Internet virus?
Q The very same. What you need to do is put your message into a very small dot, a micro dot in fact . .
Bond And stick the dot onto a Kournikova photo?
Q Exactly.
Bond Why Kournikova? apart from the obvious?
Q Well that's the devilish part. You see noone will suspect that the picture is anything other than a virus so it will be blocked and deleted.
Bond While all your team will have the perfect excuse to examine Kourno pictures in extreme detail. Now that is devilish cunning. Who invented this stuff?
Q Ah well they used to call themselves the Cult of the Dead Cow but its really a SMERSH front
Bond I see . . . . . .
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." - George Bush
They're all the fucking same. One root cause. islam.
It is islam which compels these wretched man-beasts to commit acts of terror. Devoid of any form of rational humanity, they lurch forth from their filthy caves in order to bring as much destruction and desolation as they can onto the civilized world.
I really hope, in fact I'm putting $50 on the line right now, that some brave True American Hero reads this message with the understanding that they have the RIGHT to take their guns outside and shoot as many subhuman ragheaded vermin as possible.
There's $50 in it for you if you do, gentle reader. I'll be waiting.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
He he he, I'm not surprised. Those guys at Radio-Canada tend to watch CNN and repeat what they hear. Talk about true journalism.
You're absolutely right. I find it dispicable that people would release programs that terrorists could possibly use, with the weak excuse that there might be other legitimate uses! I mean, if we got rid of Steganography, PGP, Linux, MS Word, AutoCAD, MS Project, Bablefish, Oracle, OpenOffice, Squid, Rogue Spear, Mathmatica, Apache, Cu-Seeme, and KSH... why, the world would surely be a safer place!
Cheers
-b
Some people are talking about traffic analysis, but it seems to me that the best way to use this would be to post images on the web (ideally, with no HTML files linking to them).
In each message, you'd give a URL to the location of your next transmission. Maybe also a date and time period when it will be available.
And, if you used public web access points like internet cafes to transmit and receive your images, your activity would probably be pretty darned hidden.
Just a thought off the top of my head.
Accountability on the heads of the powerful.
Power in the hands of the accountable.
There's another air-related assault in Los Angeles. abcnews.com are reporting that a plane's deliberately crashed into an LA suburb.
More islamic terror. You'd think they'd have some imagination, wouldn't you?
No, wait. Imagination, Creativity, Free Will. These are all PROHIBITED in the name of *spit* allah.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
Cult of the Dead Cow cooperate with the FBI. Anyone who respects these "Pop" hacker groups is probably just a script kiddie or else a gullible pud.
I mean, seriously, how carefully is Uncle Sam going to keep tabs on alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bin_laden_and_a_goat ?
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
> Imagination, Creativity, Free Will.
If you were capable of using any of those things, you'd probably be talking about other things, rather than using the easiest, most spineless rhetoric americans have been priviledged to in years.
Wait and find out what has happened, like people capable of using their brains do.
"Old man yells at systemd"
What do they mean by persecuted anyway? One could argue that the Taliban/Al Qaeda are persecuted political groups...
That's correct, but it could also work for groups like the Falun Gong. The Falun Gong is a religous movement that has suffered much oppression in China.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
These popular groups all have a "pro-democracy anti-communist china" message which is of course a message endorsed by the US government. Picking on China is a easy target. Try standing up for something that goes against US interests. These guys are working with US agencies so obviously, give me a freaking break.
Then there's peek-a-booty which was demoed with much fanfare at Codecon but where is it!!!! That was months ago and there is no product we can play with and no source to be seen.
I'm on side with these guys stated intentions ... I just wish I had there publicity touch.
Isn't painfully obvious the CIA and FBI have got these high profile groups promoting anti china sentiment in cracker circles after the scare of a china "hacker attack". This is just so cheesy. Come on Uncle Sam you might trick the scriptoids but the people you should really be worrying about will never buy this nonesense. Better luck next time.
According to their press release they use "LSB steganographic techniques".
In the stego world this is roughly equivalent to using ROT13. If you try and hide any sizeable amount it's a joke to detect. There are many better methods- F5, SSIS, etc...
...Is that of a surgeon who, when faced with a filthy black tumor in the otherwise healthy flesh of his patient, decides against cutting the cancer out, but instead offers it pity and reparations.
Humanity is a living organism. islam is cancer.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
Freedom of speech is being able to go in the center of a public square and say whatever you want. It's being able to put your ideas on the front page of a newspaper or pamphlet and distribute it without fear of persecution.
That being said, this may be a useful tool for some people, but I doubt it will be undetectable. Steganography is a tough problem. And encryption won't help you if the stego is detected, because the police will just put you in jail until you give them the key, since you must have something to hide when you use encryption...
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"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
steganography stuff. And really attack-safe steganography is beyond the abilities of these guys. Personally I think such groups just create
some PR-hype to found a little later a "security
company" and suck money out of clueless customers.
Just take a look at @Stake formerly l0pht.
And peek-a-booty ?
Rather peek-a-vaporware.
The "Cult of the Dead Cow" should rename itself to "Cult of Microsoft" for their 31337 v4p0rw4r1ng 5|<155.
You are the dot in slashdot !
In reading about the software mentioned, I was more impressed with Peek-a-Booty than Camera/Shy. The ability to make use of 'https' connections to not only get access to prohibited/filtered materials but encrypt them as well (with standards currently accepted as 'unsnoopable' by the business community) makes Peek-a-Booty the posterchild for the Right to Learn and Know. I hope it adds in Freedom of Speech by allowing POST/cgi interaction along those connections.
But that doesn't mean I hate Camera/Shy. It's all about giving people more options to talk to each other. If someone's country has decided to filter what you know, restrict what you say and jail you for just thinking different, I'll give praise to any software, hardware, wetware, lotek or notek method for getting people talking to each other, even if it's just a ROT13 plugin for Eudora.
CDC is just sad. They just jump on other peoples bandwagon. Look at all their lame wammering about open source and p2p. These guys a big lamers. I mean come on these guys are only good for writing shitty stego and windows trojans. These guys couldn't even write some shell code to save their ass. Fucking wannabes.
For you only believe that whites can be racist. Your best friends, Al Qaeda, are a purely racist organisation. They care not for world peace. They only care about the destruction of non-islamics.
Are you growing your beard nice and long now, in the hope of joining them?
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
Really these guys are just out of work windows programmers. *snicker*
With this tech there is many ways to hide your message.
Of course e-mail is out. But using a web site and splitting up your message throughout the images would be great.
Maybe as the images are layed out on the screen, the top one being part one, middle part two and so on.
A whole site can be used to hide anything from Decss to "anarchy" text files or plans to blow up shit.
Still, my favorite was the earlier suggested posting pr0n to newsgroups. See, before you "diss" this type of product get creative. The users will, the NSA will....
Get your Unix fortune now!
Guess what: groups such as Al Qaida, Islamic Jihad and Hamas aren considered "persecuted political groups" EVERYWHERE. The word "persecuted" is not a synonym for "wrongfully persecuted".
Hiding information in the least significant bits of images is okay if you keep the bit rate low. If it gets too high, the statistical profiles of the image changes and that can set off detectors.
I currently like the list of disco songs tool because it doens't have the same statistical problems.
As a Muslim, I feel offended that this hasn't been modded as troll, and that when someone said ringbarer was wrong, ringbarer's reply about "islam is cancer" has a score of 2.
Of course moderation is meaningless. The important matter is that such views are accepted in the name of free speech, while in most modern countries the incitement to hate is a crime.
Fucking DUH!
And islam is a hateful religion. I hope you get shot today by one of our many brave white warriors.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
The whole point is, islam is not a tumour, it is the living body, and the individuals who commit these acts are the tumors. Fine, remove them, charge them, whatever. The point is, dont throw away the body to spite the tumour, a view you seem to endorse.
"Old man yells at systemd"
when its a "persecuted political group".
Jeez, talk about making thing politically correct. Its funny how people who live in free countries are constantly trying to undermine that freedom. Thats ok, there are people perfectly happy to hang us with our own rope.
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Fav quote -
"If there were no state-sponsored censorship of the Internet, if Cisco et al weren't crack hoes for hire, if there were no democracy activists screaming for help -- hell, we could be off having fun instead of working long hours after our day jobs," Hacktivismo member and occasional Reg contributor Oxblood Ruffin told us
Any sufficiently advanced man is indistinguishable from God
It's ALL AMERICA'S FAULT. No, really. Never ask a muslim to acknowledge his own mistakes. These schoolyard bombing cowards are all the same. They ALL blame other people for their faults.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
the moral issue here is rather interesting, if a terrorist organisation were to use the technology would the programmers have a moral responsibilty?
there's also a rather nice Steganography Plugin for The GIMP.
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Capt. Russ Collins, a spokesman for the San Dimas Police Department, said a call came in at 12:49 p.m. local time (3:49 ET) that a twin-engine plane was down on the east shore on Puddingstone Lake.
Collins said personnel from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, deputies from the San Dimas sheriff's station, and Los Angeles County Park Police were at the scene.
The pilot has been identified as one Mohammed Yusuf, who overpowered and stole the plane from a nearby storage yard. It is unclear whether he was acting alone.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
Your anti-American liberalness has been reported to the Office of Homeland Defence. Please remain where you are, you Terrorist-Loving, anti-American Liberal, and the government will be these shortly to pick you up. Thank you. Have a nice day.
Matt Swanner
The Falun Gong is a religous movement that has suffered much oppression in China.
Of course, one could also argue that Falun Gong is a doomsday cult which preachs racism. I assume that PRC's government believes that, aside from the implications of competing with a powerful organization full of people with martyr complexes, their actions are little different from Germany's treatment of the Church of $cientology and the United States' treatment of Branch Davidians, for example.
You do realize under strict islamic regimes listening to funky breakbeats and groovy trance music, or any music for that matter, is punishable with lashings and/or amputations?
I mean just becuase someone doesn't like america doesn't mean they are good guys.
I mean the fucking nazis didn't like america either, are you gonna put them up on a pedestal worship them to?
Thought we already knew that a picture tells a 1000 words...
Support for Al Qaeda, such as that bestowed by "Jihad" Johnny Walker stems from a deep seated hatred of America.
This in turn comes from a deeper, unexpressed hatred by youth of their parents. For a typical whiny, snot-faced angst-ridden rich brat, their parents represent everything that is 'wrong' in America. Tradition, Honor, Optimism, Common Decency.
Force fed nigger-music by MTV, they find themselves coming to hate the security of their home, something which their parents fought long and hard to maintain.
What better way to rebel against their parents by rebelling against America? Of course, the muslim vermin makes this easy by perpetually reminding everyone that they are not accountable for their actions because everything in the whole world is America's fault.
"I live in poor country" - Blame America
"I've spent all my food money on guns and explosives" - Blame America
"I'm so ugly I have to wear a shit-face beard" - Blame America
"I've got a tiny cock because I'm an inbred subhuman freak" - Blame America
The day islam accepts responsibility for the horrors perpetrated by their staunchest advocates is the day world peace may be a viable goal.
Until then, we should kill any muslims we see. I ran one over in my car earlier on today.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
How about just using Slashdot forums to hide messages cleverly disguised as "fp!" ? Seems to me that no one reads that shit anyway...
"I think you guys with quotes in your signatures should go have an original thought." -- Dan Miller
I'm figuring that not only will this kind of software allow people to get around censorship, but wouldn't it also create a P2P-style anonymizer? This would pretty much make logging of user activity useless for criminal investigations. Would the "host" of a benevolent node on this network be liable for illegal activity that was routed through hir machine?
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Then... "Think about the Children!" (i.e. kiddie pr0n)
now... "Think about the terrorists" (i.e. taking away our rights)
The More Knowledge you have the Luckier you Get- J.R. Ewing
From their site:
The cDc and Peek-A-Booty
A commonly-perpetuated misconception about this project is that it is run by CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc). This is a myth that has been propagating since the projects inception. The Peekabooty project has its own open- source group, entirely separate from the cDc.
I'm at a loss here...
-- It's always darker before it goes pitch black.
There are just too many ways of sending unencrypted / unhidden messages; adding more work just seems like a big hassle for the sender and recipient - as was said after 11/9/01, the reason that messages were not intercepted was because they were low-tech / plain text / whatever. It is quicker and easier to make it innocent-sounding except to those who know already. Any agency screening emails / web pages / whatever would have a lot LESS work to do if it just had an image scanner that decided if there was any potential code, then concentrating on those. As another poster said, checking if a pic does or doesn't have steganography involved is easy (though you then have to decode it) - would it not then be easier to have an image of unencoded text which would be easily readable only if you look at it, on an obscurely titled web page? No automated searcher would be able to read it, no human would ever know where to look unless they alredy knew where it was.
With email, text messaging, instant messaging, unlimited internet forums, the internet pages themselves, snail mail, telephone, telegraph, morse, hundreds of languages, and god-knows what other methods, there are just too may ways to transmit info to plough through these and find hidden messages.
I just don't see the point.
On another note - could terrorist emails be easily intercepted if the volume of traffic was reduced significantly? i.e. if spam was banned?
This idea was invented by Shampoo.
According to the article:
A technology called steganography allows data to be embedded in the digital information comprising an image file. This is accomplished by altering relatively unimportant bits so that the changed image remains identical to the naked eye.
Oh, it's a special computer technology..
And here I was, thinking that storing my ATM code under "Rob Malda" in my phonebook was steganography. Doh!
I hereby convict the author of ignorance, the
penalty will be to read Simon Singh's "The Code Book",
and to abstain from writing about cryptography or steganography until he does.
"BAM!" - Elzar the chef
Timothy writes:
;)
The group has links to the Cult of the Dead Cow, which is, of course, working on Peek-a-Booty.
However if you visit the PeekABooty people:
A commonly-perpetuated misconception about this project is that it is run by CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc). This is a myth that has been propagating since the projects inception. The Peekabooty project has its own open-source group, entirely separate from the cDc.
Oh well
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Quote: "Honeyman says existing steganography cannot be completely undetectable and adds that the key used to hide messages in images can be revealed with brute force computing power."
Any weakness of steganographic systems can be overcome.
For example; to beat brute force computing power only requires to have the message as an image of obfuscated text. There are several ways to do this; for one - think red-green colourblind eye test charts. It can also be multi-layered - each with seperate key. This would require manual viewing at every single attempt to crack it. The man hours required are too large to estimate.
P.S. The United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization and the United States Department are hiding the simple solution to uniquely identify all registered trademarks on the Internet. The answer to this problem has been ratified by honest Lawyers. I believe UN WIPO and US DoC to be corrupt.
If you have heard of the respected Dr. Milton Mueller, you may be interested in the conclusion of his recent report, Domain Name Trademark Disputes under ICANN's UDRP. My comments and link to it on ICANN forum. His conclusion matches what I told UN WIPO and Nominet UK over a year ago.
Please visit World Intellectual Piracy Organization - Not associated with visit United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization
cDc/Hactivismo is no longer working on Peek-a-booty, and hasn't been for some months. Paul and Joey took over development, as you can see at www.peek-a-booty.org:
"The cDc and Peek-A-Booty
A commonly-perpetuated misconception about this project is that it is run by CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc). This is a myth that has been propagating since the projects inception. The Peekabooty project has its own open-source group, entirely separate from the cDc."
This left Hacktivismo members with some time on their hands, and Camera/Shy (and other projects underway) is the result.
Now for some comments on earlier posts:
"This will get people killed because stego is weak/traffic analysis is possible."
There is weak stego, just like there is weak crypto. But wouldn't you trust, say, triple AES encryption followed by 'outguess' stego? If not, you should stop forgetting your meds.
Traffic analysis could find some change in traffic patterns using almost any existing tool or method. Nobody can guarantee the safety of people who circumvent the Chinese firewalls, for example. Those who do so, do it at their own risk. But traffic analysis is not undertaken lightly, at least not on a large scale. Echelon, for example, does not incorporate any sort of traffic analysis per fairly recent reports. I assume that The Pull will be adding PNG and/or JPG support before long, which would make it quite a bit harder.
To the other armchair critics out there, I'd say "So where is *your* privacy/anticensorship product? The one which is immune to port and IP blocking, DoS, and traffic analysis, but which is easy to use, requires no cryptography, etc?" The fact is that there will never be such a product, because it's simply not possible. Forgive us for not expecting the oppressed people of the world to simply give up all hope because of theoretical risks. If you want to criticize, please code something and show how it can be done better! Any contribution, no matter how trivial, is more helpful than empty whining.
Persecuted is one of those words that implies something without explicitly stating it, in this case it implies "wrongfully persecuted." It's a loaded word favored by major media outlets and other alleged sources of "objective reporting".
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." - George Bush
I've see nothing except the 'mobile wire tap' that's different from what has always been available to law enforcement provided there is a court warrant. If someone is to be wiretapped at all, a mobile wire tap and a tap on Internet communications only makes sense.
Due process appears to be intact.
Watching Cowboy Bebop in my jammies, eating a bowl of Shreddies.
Ok, I'm referring to the country currently known as "Myanmar", but I refuse to grant the torturing, fascist limp-dick fucks in SLORC the dignity of using their chosen name.
Basically, from what I've heard, 10% of the adult population of Burma are secret police informants, either willingly or through coercion. You can never be sure who your real friends are, and no activity involving more than one person can be secure. More importantly (to this discussion), unlicensed possession of a modem is severely punished. So, in Burma, stego, crypto, and traffic analysis are all effectively obsolete. Only "trusted" people and organizations get internet access, with the understanding that they will be watched closely. Everyone else lives in medieval isolation (except for working for PepsiCo), cut off from the rest of the world, with far fewer human rights than even the citizens of China.
Freedom: "I won't!"
I hate responding to flamebait... but this story at CNN. Does not support any of your terrorist claims, no mention of your alleged Terrorist. The actual Pilot died at a local hospital with the passenger as survivor.
"Nimis exaltatus rex sedet in vertice - caveat ruinam!"
this is not to be confused with the Saganography tool, which will be released in the near future, and will allow the common PC to visualize billions and billions of hidden alien transmissions.
Speaking of the X-Files, one of Chris Carter's other shows, Millenium, used something similar in an episode. There were a coulple of young hacker guys (reminiscent of the Lone Gunmen) who decoded a message hidden in a picture file by detecting subtle changes in the colors of pixels. One of the show's better episodes, as I recall. And I want whatever hack they were using to make "Print Screen" send a screenshot directly to the printer ; )
I must say that's the first semi-intelligent thing I've seen you say.
Of course, being a troll, 99% of what you post is inflammatory crap anyway...
I believe what you're referring to is called "editorial stance," like it or not, you will never escape it.
As an old journalist, I can assure you that you will never find any media entity which doesn't have an editorial position. Slashdot's moderation, which I myself have sometimes found arbitrary and annoying (yes, I've been modded down often enough) is no worse than cnn.com's refusal to air some stories, or the emphasis they put on aspects of various stories, or PC Magazine's lack of critical reviews of major advertiser's products. If anything, Slashdot's policies are less harmful. To call them fascist for having an editorial policy is ludicrous. Nobody would ever want to visit a site without such a policy, as the content would be random and directionless.
If you can't live with slashdot's policies, by all means post elsewhere! Would you expect a Communist site to welcome Republican-slanted posts from you, or vice versa? I think not. This is not the only site in the world, and you can always start your own if you can't be happy with anyone else's.
In summation: dude, get a grip.
Shame it will doubtless be used by paedophiles, nazis, George Double-Yah Bush and other terrorists etc etc.
The price of freedom isn't just eternal vigilance.
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.
I don't see the point. I use PGP once in a blue moon, but I can't imagine ever wanting to use steganography.
Sigh. My life must be boring compared to those hacktivist James Bond types.
nobody
may I remind you that almost all the federalist papers were written with (nom de plums) and secretly posted on trees in the unpopulated woods along roadsides.
Ik looks like the Hacktivismo-site has disappeared ??
ZDNet is just running a Newsmessage about Camera/Shy... Coincidence ?