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Steganography with Flickr

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you'll-just-have-to-look-harder dept.

yiangocy writes "Steganography is not something new, there have been techniques and available programs for hiding data in pictures/audio files for a long time now. However, one step further is using popular online photo sharing sites, such as Flickr in hiding your data, successfully."

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  1. not very groundbreaking by towaz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not exactly a new idea, goverments have been paranoid of "Terrorists" using stego on places like ebay for triggers.

    More interesting projects, though off topic slightly; a method of obscuring your network communications and resolving key issues with stego (though I think the project stopped)
      http://www.m-o-o-t.org/

    They is also much more interesting uses for stego. in files, hdd slack space and this nice little project 4c.

    http://dione.ids.pl/~shykta/

    4c (or fourcrypt) is a multiple-file steganography program inspired by Michal Zalewski's twocrypt (2c) program, designed to be "subpoena-proof". It supports mixing between one and eight files with independent keys. The files are architecture-independant (tested on x86 and UltraSparc).

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  2. Steganography in recent fiction by sidles · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Steganography is central to Carter Scholz's recent novel Radiance. In brief, complete engineering descriptions of all US nuclear weapons tests are smuggled out of the US national labs, steganographically conceiled in pornographic *.gif files.

    Warning: this novel is a demanding read. It is a higher-brow---and markedly dystopian---treatment of the same themes as Neil Stephensen's Cryptonomicon. In writing it, Mr. Scholz seems to have received considerable help from insiders at the national laboratories.

    With luck, the following link to Google Print will show you a sample page that is reasonably representative of the entire book.

    http://print.google.com/print?id=kVP7pIA9TYUC&pg=P A382&lpg=PA382&dq=steganography&prev=http://www.go ogle.com/search%3Fclient%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us%26 q%3DRadiance%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8&sig=-uyML9j p9G4JsUZOCa59fPI6YpM