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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."
...people just think it is because it hides itself very well. ;-)
Makes you wonder what the demon is hiding
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
I've been using it for years, posting messages like "allah is great" on Fark photoshop contests.
Just raising the background chatter to a dull roar.
...is that no one else knows where to look to find things that might be sensitive. You can literally hide things in plain sight, but with the amount of crud stacked everywhere physically, and the amount of data strewn about with no apparent labelling (except for the porn of course), no one can actually tell what is important and what isn't.
Of course, dates don't seem to understand the logic of living in an apartment that already looks like it's been rifled through.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
The act of renaming your porn files to "StudyNotes.jpeg" is not steno unfortunately :)
Simply rename its extension to .dll. It will fit right in to the gigs of OS files.
Delta Burke did this for years
http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/bsdversuslinux.html
you put your soldiers in armoured transports... but they still wear camoflauge!
2 1337 4 u!
I've been staring at this pictures of Jenny McCarthy for years now, trying to discover the steganographically hidden messages.
That's what I told my girlfriend.
Except here, we're decorating the armored transport with camoflaged soldiers...or something. ;)
I keep mine in topsecret.txt.
"See these naked pics of grandma!"
Roving Web-Teleoperated Robot
Damn you. I just spend 10 minutes trying to decrypt goatse.cx
Didn't Kevin Nealon hooker already perfect this technique useless on Saturday Night boring Live?
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Actually, it's more like painting the armored transport to look like an ice cream truck.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, though I'm not yet sure about the universe. - A Einstein
...hiding your secrets in an image? Just write them in Perl!
http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/docs/007analysis .html
What sort of security is it when you put a non-hyperlinked URL with a space in it in your post?
It looks like a link, but I can't click on it... Hmmm... maybe if I copy it and paste it into the browser... no! it still doesn't work!
Now that's security.
Casual Games/Downloads
Church!? Wha??? I thought all the BSD folks were labeled heathens and heritics, walking the strut of the daemon!
:-( --- argh. Despair, I owe again.
and it becomes 100% useless if you make it trigger tons of false positives.
That's right: for every picture with a real hidden message, you have 10,000 with the following text:
"What the fuck do you think YOU'RE looking for?
Madonna"
Call me old fashioned, but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating - Bender
A family friend works for the Government in detecting stenographic communications said that any wide spread use of stenography could really hamper the government.
John Ashcroft: Miss, take my dictation.
Secretary: MUAHAHAHAHA! (shuts down government)
perhaps you meant steganography?
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.