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Sending Secret Messages Via Google's SearchWiki

Posted by kdawson on from the your-mission-should-you-choose-to-accept-it dept.

We discussed the advent of Google's SearchWiki when it was introduced a few days back. Now Lauren Weinstein offers a thought experiment in transmitting coded messages using SearchWiki, with a working example encoded into the results of this Google search.

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  1. Not very stenographic by girlintraining · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's a nice idea, but the messages are still being sent in the clear, and anyone monitoring your internet traffic would be able to readily identify which sites were visited and in which order. If you're trying to hide something, this is a poor way of doing so. Especially since it's likely there would be a need for repeated communication, and there's still the problem of "key exchange" as it were. In short, it might fool a casual observer, but I doubt it would get past someone with training -- this is something even an FBI field agent would likely pick up on (note the sarcasm). A proper stenographic technique should perform even under close surveillance.

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  2. hmm ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This reminds me of the secret messages as /. comments we see here, under anonymous and spammylike, always at -1.

    Seems like some botnet control code thingy.

  3. Re:STOP MESSING WITH SLASHDOT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The problem is, it asks to log in. I want my default precious AC view to look sensible dammit.

  4. Re:the message by hclewk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Google has measured the slashdot effect.

    http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=orthogonal+terwilliger+accordion&date=2008-11-25&sa=X

  5. Re:related searches by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I love the "related searches":

    ann coulter jaw wired shut, ann coulter, ann coulter jaw, ann coulter breaks jaw, ann coulter broken jaw

    Not sure I see the relation, though.