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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."
Will it do anything differently than the rock-solid and famous OutGuess" ?
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
It's easier, I'm sure, to make and distribute a program that terrorists could possibly use in some manner to attack us if you say 'It's for the persecuted political groups' instead. Has a catchy "For the children" ring to it". Plus it's good PR, of course.
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.
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.
Hell, we've lost enough rights already thanks to the Patriot Act.
What rights have you lost under the patriot act?
Watching Cowboy Bebop in my jammies, eating a bowl of Shreddies.
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.