Hiding Secrets With Steganography On FreeBSD

BSD Forums writes "Bad guys in the movies all keep their wall safes hidden behind paintings. Is there a metaphor in there for your sensitive files? OnLamp's Dru Lavigne explores steganography, or hiding secret messages in images or sounds, with the outguess and steghide utilities on FreeBSD."

Comments

Re:Stego is so old news

[Anonymous Coward]

Not sure why this was modded funny. There is nothing funny about the phrase that is repeated by a Radical Muslim as he destroys countless lives with a bomb.

Re:Are there secrets in the opensource images?

[joto]

Which brings me to wonder: what prevents people from putting messages hidden in the KDE or Gnome icons and such?

What prevents people from putting messages hidden in anything else, whether it is a physical object or a file?

Nothing! Maybe the corn-flakes you eat has small messages written on it that are too small to see with the naked eye, and using an alphabet that looks like natural ridges...

Instead tell me why you should care about this?

Re:Here's a link to a whole steg. file system:

[Uma Thurman]

It figures that a conservative would want to hide things. Obviously you have a hard drive full of incriminating files, and since you conservatives put John Ashcroft into office, you have a reason to use steganography. After all, with the conservative police state seizing hard drives left and right, you've got to protect yourself. Disgusting.