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Hiding Secrets With Steganography On FreeBSD

Posted by Hemos on from the hiding-it-together dept.

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."

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  1. BSD isn't dying... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...people just think it is because it hides itself very well. ;-)

  2. makes you wonder... by akaina · · Score: 5, Funny

    Makes you wonder what the demon is hiding

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    1. Re:makes you wonder... by dipipanone · · Score: 4, Funny

      <Darl McBride>
      I'll tell you what the Demon is hiding -- our intellectual property, fer cryin' out loud.

      Boies? I hope you're getting all this. The damned open source, heathen, communist hippies are deliberately flaunting their ability to conceal the code they've ripped off in an image of some goddamned devil. If that isn't proof enough of a conspiracy to rip us off, I don't know what is!
      </Darl McBride>

  3. Stego is so old news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. The great thing about being disorganized... by TWX · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...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.

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  5. Re:Hiding pr0n? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The act of renaming your porn files to "StudyNotes.jpeg" is not steno unfortunately :)

  6. How to hide files in windows by j_dot_bomb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Simply rename its extension to .dll. It will fit right in to the gigs of OS files.

    1. Re:How to hide files in windows by Walkiry · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, I'm sure every user has a monstercock.dll file in their windows folder ;)

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  7. Re:Good stuff, but... by Frymaster · · Score: 4, Funny
    it's like the army.

    you put your soldiers in armoured transports... but they still wear camoflauge!

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  8. Yeah, steganography by Scholasticus · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  9. Re:Good stuff, but... by lpp · · Score: 4, Funny

    Except here, we're decorating the armored transport with camoflaged soldiers...or something. ;)

  10. Hiding messages in Pics of grandma by Hayzeus · · Score: 4, Funny
    I have found that you can increase the efficacy of this technique by changing the email subject to:

    "See these naked pics of grandma!"

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  11. Re:Good stuff, but... by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn you. I just spend 10 minutes trying to decrypt goatse.cx

  12. Steganography by Qinopio · · Score: 3, Funny

    Didn't Kevin Nealon hooker already perfect this technique useless on Saturday Night boring Live?

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  13. Re:Good stuff, but... by Methuseus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, it's more like painting the armored transport to look like an ice cream truck.

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  14. Re:Examples of good steno-encryption by strictnein · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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