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Hiding Packets in VoIP Chat

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

holy_calamity writes "Two Polish researchers say they have developed a system to hide secret steganographic messages in the packets of a VOIP connection. It exploits the fact that VoIP uses UDP, not TCP; it is designed to tolerate some packets going missing -- so hijacking a few to transmit a hidden message is not a problem." You may also be interested in reading the original paper.

2 of 90 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No way by CogDissident · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm lost, how does this relate at all to anything? I'm sure it was meant as a joke, but I completely don't get it.

  2. Re:Well... by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Missing a comma after 'anymore'.

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