ASCII Art Steganography

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Posted by timothy on Sunday January 11, 2009 @08:37PM from the of-all-the-ideas-out-there-this-is-one dept.

bigearcow writes "ASCII art is nothing new, but this site takes it one step further by allowing you to embed another data file within the image. The resulting ASCII art remains printable (i.e. no special unicode symbols) — this means you can print the image out, hang it on your wall, and have it look like an innocent ASCII art when it's hiding a secret document of your choice." You'll need a small (200x200 pixel max) base image from which the ASCII art will be built.

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Excellent! by Seriousity · 2009-01-11 20:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Now we can hide instructions on how to pirate movies in **AA logos! Great day for freedom!

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1. Re:Excellent! by Aiml · 2009-01-11 20:56 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  http://intersect.theintersect.org/riaa.html
2. Re:Excellent! by Xest · 2009-01-11 21:01 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Or even more amusingly, hide the keys for Bluray's DRM in the Bluray logo, although it would be more fun to not hide it and just make an ASCII Bluray logo out of the keys they tried to magic off of the net claiming the string was copyrighted or whatever when they were first released.
3. Re:Excellent! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 22:40 · Score: 0
  
  Easily the most boring troll EVER. Was it your intention to put us to sleep, or is it just a by-product of your penchant for unchecked verbosity?
4. Re:Excellent! by mathew7 · 2009-01-11 22:55 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  You're like someone who drives a Ferrari and when it breaks down he has to call the service...oh wait...there is no service because all the technical people are extinct since the new ones DID NOT learn the old ways.
  I'm sure this kind of (programming) thinking is why Vista had so many bad reviews from enthusiasts.
  And without those boring interrupt calls and HW access you would not have any other high-level language and you would be stuck in the old platforms (compatibility). Someone still has to do the dirty work.
  I so hate the idea of "everyone can be a programmer".
5. Re:Excellent! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 23:04 · Score: 0
  
  Why do I still see these when my minumum threshold is set to 1?
6. Re:Excellent! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 23:38 · Score: 0
  
  Rejoice! A higher class of troll!
7. Re:Excellent! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 23:48 · Score: 0
  
  'Anyone can Program'.
8. Re:Excellent! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 00:52 · Score: 0
  
  Not really it's just a copy paste of the Great Gatsby, no originality or thought into it. I mean i'll be honest it is much better than the damn "nigger nigger nigger" posts or the random one about C programmers or even this new one in a letter format about being in Prison. I don't remember seeing so many trolls these days. That being said I am expecting to see a new sort of troll in the form of ASCII Art, just give it time, since 20% of story comments are trolls.
9. Re:Excellent! by seanellis · 2009-01-12 01:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  See how effective it is? There is a relevant comment hidden in the above post - I challenge anyone to find it!
  
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10. Re:Excellent! by hobbit · 2009-01-12 01:27 · Score: 1
  
  Hmm, I think you might have posted to the wrong forum. There are no smug assholes here on Slashdot.
  
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11. Re:Excellent! by Tyrannicsupremacy · 2009-01-12 02:06 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  ten bucks to whoever can figure out the hidden message in THIS ascii picture: 8===D ~ ~ ~ ~ ~O:
  
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12. Re:Excellent! by clone53421 · 2009-01-12 07:17 · Score: 1
  
  That being said I am expecting to see a new sort of troll in the form of ASCII Art, just give it time, since 20% of story comments are trolls.
  The lameness filter doesn't like ASCII art.
  
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13. Re:Excellent! by Meski · 2009-01-12 17:56 · Score: 1
  
  Is this the /. equivalent of those bayesian poisoning emails I keep getting?
14. Re:Excellent! by DaVince21 · 2009-01-15 13:04 · Score: 1
  
  I wonder how much time is wasted on people making up stories like these rather than them actually getting some work done...
  
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hang it on your wall? by commodoresloat · 2009-01-11 20:46 · Score: 5, Insightful

Who wants to hang ascii art on their wall? Besides:

2. Select data file. This will be the data file embedded in the ascii art. (Limited to around 40kb at the moment)
Hmmm, how secure can this tool be when you have to send your secure data, unencrypted, to another site to use it?
1. Re:hang it on your wall? by shitzu · 2009-01-11 20:51 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Who says you may not encrypt it first? A little AES never hurt steganography.
2. Re:hang it on your wall? by commodoresloat · 2009-01-11 21:03 · Score: 1
  
  Good point. I withdraw that remark. The wall comment stands, however.
3. Re:hang it on your wall? by Kokuyo · 2009-01-11 21:57 · Score: 1
  
  And that would be a matter of opinion and taste, making that point rather redundant.
4. Re:hang it on your wall? by HonestButCurious · 2009-01-11 22:55 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Um, actually AES does hurt steganography since steganalysis tools have an easier time finding uniformly distributed payloads (such as AES ciphertexts) than somewhat biased payloads (such as standard text).
  So, it would be easier to know that you have some data in there, but harder to know what the data is. Your call.
  Take a look at this tutorial:
  www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/practical.pdf
5. Re:hang it on your wall? by packeteer · 2009-01-11 23:31 · Score: 1
  
  Could you inject some type of padding or filler in to make the data appear less evenly distributed when in reality the filler simply follows some pattern that can be easily removed later? I know this is not going to actually make it more secure but it could obfuscate the fact that the data exists.
  
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6. Re:hang it on your wall? by shadowknot · 2009-01-12 00:02 · Score: 1
  
  True, although you could pop the file to be encrypted in a TrueCrypt container (not all that plausible right now with the 40K limit!) then encrypt it as TC containers appear as random data, no signature or common structure so it would essentially appear that the user had just encrypted junk.
7. Re:hang it on your wall? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 01:35 · Score: 0
  
  So, it would be easier to know that you have some data in there, but impossible to know what the data is. Your call.
  fixed that for you.
8. Re:hang it on your wall? by Zerth · 2009-01-12 02:27 · Score: 1
  
  You could easily do so, but adding such padding either further limits the capacity of an already limited space, or greatly increases the file size needed to hide your message.
9. Re:hang it on your wall? by digitalhermit · 2009-01-12 02:43 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Ahh, memories.
  Back in the 80s it was the height of geek couture to have an ASCII printout of Princess Leia adorning your wall.
10. Re:hang it on your wall? by Bandman · 2009-01-12 03:04 · Score: 1
  
  You could wallpaper a room with it
  
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11. Re:hang it on your wall? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 03:06 · Score: 0
  
  That would be pretty awesome actually!
12. Re:hang it on your wall? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 03:45 · Score: 0
  
  I think the 40k limit comes from the picture size. Generalize the algorithm to be effective for a picture of arbitrary dimensions and TC might work.
  
  However, there's still a question, what are you going to do with a 1000x1000 Ascii Art poster. I mean, hang it on a wall? Do we have so huge walls?
13. Re:hang it on your wall? by Mikkeles · 2009-01-12 05:40 · Score: 1
  
  Back in the 60s we had Snoopy on his doghouse. But we had real women in place of pictures; it was the 60s after all:)
  
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Breaking news by Aiml · 2009-01-11 20:47 · Score: 5, Funny

A Catholic priest has been cleared of child pornography charges after the only evidence the prosecution could offer was a series of ROFLcopters found on his harddrive.
1. Re:Breaking news by Chrisq · 2009-01-11 20:57 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That, plus being a Catholic priest should be enough to persuade most juries.
2. Re:Breaking news by rm999 · 2009-01-11 21:55 · Score: 1
  
  An several of these were pinned up to his wall:
  http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=585451&topic=44127983
3. Re:Breaking news by IBBoard · 2009-01-11 22:35 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Being a Catholic priest persuades most people to clear them? I must have missed that one!
4. Re:Breaking news by Main+Gauche · 2009-01-12 03:54 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  It was sitting right next to the joke.
5. Re:Breaking news by imp7 · 2009-01-13 08:46 · Score: 1
  
  Innocent until proven guilty. Not guilty until proven innocent
6. Re:Breaking news by IBBoard · 2009-01-13 21:11 · Score: 1
  
  That depends on whether you're talking about the way the law works in theory or the way that criminal prosecution and the physical court room works on the human mind. While people like to think that they think "innocent until proven guilty" there are still triggers that make people assume guilty earlier than the evidence supports.
can only encode about 40kB by OrangeTide · 2009-01-11 20:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Not quite big enough for a torrent, yet.

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1. Re:can only encode about 40kB by spintriae · 2009-01-11 22:12 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  This Google App Engine application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.
  
  Looks like 40kB was pushing it.
2. Re:can only encode about 40kB by phoenix321 · 2009-01-11 22:42 · Score: 1
  
  Well, encode a 40kB keyfile then. AES-40000 should be enough for anyone :)
3. Re:can only encode about 40kB by roachdabug · 2009-01-12 01:27 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  2GB ASCII art would seem pretty suspicious to me.
4. Re:can only encode about 40kB by aceofspades1217 · 2009-01-12 03:28 · Score: 1
  
  This will be great, you know when you have download a movie from usenet and its encoded in ANCII art.
  Take that MPAA!
  They will never figure out what those 4GB collections of ANCII art could possibly be.
5. Re:can only encode about 40kB by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 04:58 · Score: 0
  
  I believe he was referring to the actual .torrent tracker files.
6. Re:can only encode about 40kB by BronsCon · 2009-01-12 06:00 · Score: 1
  
  To further your point, he could also mean a series of ASCII art, titled:
  1.txt
  2.txt
  3.txt
  etc...
  Similar to multipart RAR archives.
  Hell, one could put the multipart ASCII-stego into a multipart RAR for extra fun!
  
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7. Re:can only encode about 40kB by RazboiniKSS · 2009-01-12 09:37 · Score: 0
  
  40k ought to be enough for anybody :P
8. Re:can only encode about 40kB by ElderKorean · 2009-01-12 19:18 · Score: 1
  
  This will be great, you know when you have download a movie from usenet and its encoded in ANCII art.
  You only had to ask.
  VLC Media Player can set the output device to be ASCII text.
  You can probably send that stream to a file.
Checkout his phone number - total nerd! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 20:54 · Score: 0

Phone Number: The 10191th prime x (10 x a + b) where a-b = the month I was born
slashdot v google slashdot wins by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 20:56 · Score: 5, Interesting

google has been slashdotted.. well only that users app, but still, slashdot > google ;-)
"App Engine Error
Over Quota
This Google App Engine application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later. "
Though it is intermittent.
1. Re:slashdot v google slashdot wins by the100rabh · 2009-01-11 21:02 · Score: 0
  
  for me its permanent....seems like slashdotters have used up all the bandwidth available
2. Re:slashdot v google slashdot wins by slimey_limey · 2009-01-11 21:13 · Score: 1
  
  Omnomnomnomnom.
  Coral doesn't have the static content for most of the pages, but I'm working on that.
  
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3. Re:slashdot v google slashdot wins by Yvan256 · 2009-01-12 03:30 · Score: 1
  
  If we read the text long enough, maybe we'll be able to decode the secret message inside that weird ASCII Art? It does look like a regular sentence to me, but isn't that the point?
Seriously? by jadedoto · 2009-01-11 20:58 · Score: 1

This just up and slashdotted already?
1. Re:Seriously? by im_thatoneguy · 2009-01-11 21:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Behold Cloud Computing! Fast, Efficient, Scalab.. errr--hold that thought.
2. Re:Seriously? by m0i · 2009-01-11 21:52 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Behold Cloud Computing! Fast, Efficient, Scalab.. errr--hold that thought.
  It does if you can justify the need to Google, for now they have quotas (see http://code.google.com/intl/fr/appengine/articles/quotas.html).
  
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3. Re:Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 21:59 · Score: 0
  
  Cloud computing is nothing more than nickel and diming gone batshit insane.
4. Re:Seriously? by BenoitRen · 2009-01-11 22:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  And they say people don't RTFA...
5. Re:Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 23:44 · Score: 0
  
  Google is not required to provide unlimited resources for free. Sorry.
Huh? by Frosty+Piss · 2009-01-11 21:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

From the application linky:

This Google App Engine application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.

From Google App Engine web site:

Google App Engine makes it easy to design scalable applications that grow from one to millions of users without infrastructure headaches.

Maybe not...

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1. Re:Huh? by Fruit · 2009-01-11 21:13 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Quota is about money headaches, not infrastructure headaches. Google can't help you with that.
2. Re:Huh? by m0i · 2009-01-11 21:33 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  AppEngine quotas explained
  
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3. Re:Huh? by spintriae · 2009-01-11 21:43 · Score: 1, Insightful
  
  I didn't realize scalability was analogous with free unlimited bandwidth. I'll keep that in mind.
4. Re:Huh? by wisty · 2009-01-11 21:54 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Still, it's good to know we slashdotted google. I bet that hasn't happened for a while.
5. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 22:15 · Score: 0
  
  It's not slashdotted. Slashdotted would mean "down".
  The owner of the application probably didn't pay enough for Google to allow to serve more pages. That's all. Not a technical issue...
6. Re:Huh? by HonestButCurious · 2009-01-11 22:49 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  The App Engine cluster is not just a big dump truck of cycles you dip into on demand. The processing power is quantized into discrete machines. There's actually a nice scheduler there that checks how busy your app is and assigns new processors to handle it. This isn't a real-time process so there are transient periods with overload. On the long run, GAE will scale fine.
  There are some nice vids about the architecture on the Google developer youtube channels.
7. Re:Huh? by MrZaius · 2009-01-11 23:21 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  >Quota is about money headaches, not infrastructure headaches. Google can't help you with that.
  No, it's about infrastructure. They allow for users to "apply" for more if the app is cool enough, and presumably award some free access to a higher quota - Read the grandparent post link. Google does at least offer to consider helping. Regardless, though, money buys and maintains infrastructure, and that's all that really is the issue here even if they are trying to milk most developers that use the service of a bit of cash.
8. Re:Huh? by Kent+Recal · 2009-01-11 23:36 · Score: 1
  
  Well, at a market cap of 100 billions I think this should rather read: Google doesn't want to help you with that. :P
9. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 00:10 · Score: 0
  
  Google App Engine is not like a truck? So I guess it's a series of Tubes then huh?
10. Re:Huh? by hobbit · 2009-01-12 01:11 · Score: 1
  
  You think Google got rich by giving their customers unlimited quota?
  
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11. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 01:20 · Score: 0
  
  So it's not a big truck, it's a series of youtubes?
12. Re:Huh? by ATMD · 2009-01-12 03:42 · Score: 1
  
  Meh, close enough. I for one am willing to gloss over such technicalities for the ego boost =)
  
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already /.ed by Yanimal · 2009-01-11 21:00 · Score: 0

at 2 in the morning on a sunday.
1. Re:already /.ed by Copley · 2009-01-11 21:17 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You might have a little bit of a narrow world-view... It's midday here, and I hear that the time in other places is even more different! ;-)
  
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2. Re:already /.ed by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 23:34 · Score: 0
  
  You must be American.
3. Re:already /.ed by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 23:49 · Score: 0
  
  What are you talking about? Everybody knows that whole /. audience consists of only North Americans. It even says that majority of them do in the FAQ entry from 2002! So there can't be very big differences...
4. Re:already /.ed by jonaskoelker · 2009-01-12 05:34 · Score: 1
  
  [subj: already /.ed] at 2 in the morning on a sunday.
  Posted on Monday, Jan 12th, at 10:00. (TZ=CET=GMT+1) ;)
5. Re:already /.ed by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 05:37 · Score: 0
  
  at 2 in the morning on a sunday.
  It was 4AM Monday here (EST), exactly where in the world was it 2AM Sunday?
Bandwidth fail by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 21:03 · Score: 0

Lol - it's already over the limit. As /. tends to do to small sites... pity, it sounded like a cool app.
1. Re:Bandwidth fail by Frosty+Piss · 2009-01-11 21:07 · Score: 1
  
  As /. tends to do to small sites...
  Yes, Google is just a little upstart, but they'll grow...
  
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Meh by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 21:08 · Score: 1, Interesting

I'm SO going to store the Wikipedia article on Linux underneath Windows' logo. *maniacal laugh*
An example of what it can do... by Copley · 2009-01-11 21:12 · Score: 5, Funny

ilovet ow at c h d o n k e y p o r nbutdo n t e ll my mother

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1. Re:An example of what it can do... by shird · 2009-01-11 21:28 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  dont ell my mother?
  But yes, it's not exactly difficult to have ascii art embed a message. It's text afterall.
  
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2. Re:An example of what it can do... by spintriae · 2009-01-11 22:05 · Score: 1
  
  dont ell my mother?
  Don tell my mother.
3. Re:An example of what it can do... by Copley · 2009-01-11 22:08 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  It's beta code... there's bound to be a few errors in the encryption algorithm!
  
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4. Re:An example of what it can do... by evan_arrrr! · 2009-01-11 23:27 · Score: 0, Redundant
  
  I love to watch donkey porn but don't tell my mother. That's actually what it says. Hardly steganography.
5. Re:An example of what it can do... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 00:01 · Score: 0
  
  oh dear, humor failer.
6. Re:An example of what it can do... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 01:03 · Score: 0
  
  Thanks rain man. I'd have been puzzling over that for weeks.
7. Re:An example of what it can do... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 01:17 · Score: 0
  
  Gosh, you'd have thought Copley would have realised that, but evidently not. What an ass! Just as well you were here to point it out.
8. Re:An example of what it can do... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 01:31 · Score: 0
  
  Whooosh!
9. Re:An example of what it can do... by evan_arrrr! · 2009-01-13 02:46 · Score: 1
  
  Yes, whoosh indeed. Shortly after posting, I realized my fatal mistake.
Can be done for code, too by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 21:22 · Score: 0

The programming language Spoon (http://www.bluedust.com/spoon/) demonstrated this, as well. Hiding crypto, anyone?
Previous art by dee.cz · 2009-01-11 21:36 · Score: 5, Informative

We r0mb ya d0nt - 256b intro from 1999, has 200 bytes of additional code hidden in file_id.diz
1. Re:Previous art by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 00:19 · Score: 0
  
  The secret message is....
  Over Quota
  This Google App Engine application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.
2. Re:Previous art by Fred_A · 2009-01-12 02:44 · Score: 1
  
  Another vaguely similar hack at
  http://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/index.html
  Backing up your data on paper (and restoring with a scanner). Author claims 500K bytes of uncompressed data per standard page (A4). You can store it as ain image file if you like I think (it's a Windows app so I didn't actually try it)
  You din't get any pretty pictures (unless you're very lucky) though.
  
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huh by pondermaster · 2009-01-11 21:52 · Score: 5, Funny

who needs steganography when you can hide whole sites with slashdotting at least for a while...
Real Men don't make backups by andyn · 2009-01-11 22:01 · Score: 5, Funny

Real Men don't make backups. They embed their private data into ASCII art and let the world mirror it.
It should also run as perl... by whyloginwhysubscribe · 2009-01-11 22:41 · Score: 1

I'd be more impressed if it was also a piece of perl code. It might be slashdotted one minute - then back up the next by the way...
Hey dawg by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 22:47 · Score: 1, Funny

I heard you like pictures, so we put a ASCII image text string in your ASCII image, so you can look at a picture while you look at a picture
lenatorrent-win7.jpg by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 22:48 · Score: 0

Has anyone considered encoding torrents as jpg or pngs, that way we could let google cache them? Perhaps we can standardize on using an image of Lena Söderberg
1. Re:lenatorrent-win7.jpg by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 23:37 · Score: 0
  
  Google already caches torrent files. Searching by .torrent extension
Extremely simple concept by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-11 22:51 · Score: 1, Interesting

Algorithm 1 is used to transform an input (image) into an output (ascii art).
Algorithm 2 is used to modify the output of the first algorithm according to a pattern. The pattern is the data file encoded.
By seeing how the actual output deviates from the output that would have resulted if only algorithm 1 was used, and knowledge of algorithm 2, the pattern can be deduced.
This is really no different from hiding anything within anything. If you had an algorithm that converted spreadsheets to well-sounding MP3 files that it was possible to hide goat porn in, it would work according to the same principle. Although this is a slick implementation.
1. Re:Extremely simple concept by JayJay.br · 2009-01-12 01:39 · Score: 1
  
  Except for the fact that if you are the only one that has the source image (i.e., some picture of yours) or even if you modify any source image (color, contrast, compression, you name it) in a way that is unique to your source image file, there's no easy way to discover the pattern, since you can't see the 'original' (pre-stego) picture.
  Pretty much like a symmetrical cryptosystem.
  You could call that security by obscurity, but even so it is a nice obscurity :).
What. by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 00:01 · Score: 0

How many people read the title off the RSS feed and thought it said ASCII Art Stenography?
Waddabout camel code? by Skiron · 2009-01-12 00:13 · Score: 1

Camel Code
Sorted words by cornicefire · 2009-01-12 01:12 · Score: 2, Interesting

I've always liked the way to hide information in a list of things. Peter Wayner wrote a Java thingee that starts with a list of top disco songs. Talk about ambiguous. Any order would make sense. But you can use any list. Here's my favorites: Barry White: Barry White's Greatest Hits (20th Century, 1975) KC & The Sunshine Band: KC & The Sunshine Band (TK, 1975) Gregg Diamond Bionic Boogie: Hot Butterfly (Polydor, 1978) The Jimmy Castor Bunch: Butt Of Course (Atlantic, 1974) Silver Convention: Save Me (Midland International, 1975) Voyage: Voyage; Fly Away (Marlin, 1978) First Choice: Delusions (Gold Mind, 1977) Beautiful Bend: Beautiful Bend (Marlin, 1978) Candi Staton: Young Hearts Run Free (Warner Bros., 1976) Loleatta Holloway: Loleatta (Gold Mind/Salsoul, 1976) Trammps: The Trammps (Golden Fleece/CBS, 1975) Giorgio Moroder: From Here to Eternity (Casablanca, 1985) Cerrone: Love In C Minor (Cotillion, 1977) Santa Esmeralda: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Casablanca, 1977) Chic: Chic (Atlantic, 1977) Taana Gardner: Taana Gardner (West End, 1979) LaBelle: Nightbirds (Epic, 1974) B.T. Express: Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) (Roadshow, 1974) Salsoul Orchestra: The Salsoul Orchestra (Salsoul, 1975) Michael Zager Band: Let's All Chant (Private Stock, 1977) Donna Summer: The Donna Summer Anthology (Casablanca/Chronicles, 1993) Linda Clifford: If My Friends Could See Me Now (Curtom, 1978) Direct Current: Direct Current (TEC Records, 1979) Cloud One: Atmosphere Strutt (P&P, 1976) Gloria Gaynor: Never Can Say Goodbye (MGM, 1975) Kano: Kano (Emergency, 1980) France Joli: France Joli (Prelude, 1979) Village People: Village People (Casablanca, 1977) Diana Ross: The Boss (Motown, 1979) Tantra: The Double Album (Importe/12, 1980) Cerrone: Cerrone 3 - Supernature (Cotillion, 1978) Hamilton Bohannon: Summertime Groove (Mercury, 1978) Love And Kisses: Love And Kisses (Casablanca, 1977) Ashford & Simpson: So So Satisfied; Send It (Warner Bros., 1977) Isaac Hayes: Chocolate Chip (HBS, 1975) Love Unlimited: Under The Influence Of . . . (20th Century, 1973) Disco-Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes: Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lettes (Chelsea, 1975) Kool & The Gang: Wild And Peaceful (De-Lite, 1973) Sister Sledge: We Are Family (Cotillion, 1979) Sylvester: Step II (Fantasy, 1978) Change: The Glow Of Love (Warner Bros./RFC, 1980) Sister Sledge: Circle Of Love (Cotillion, 1975) Grace Jones: Portfolio (Island, 1977)
1. Re:Sorted words by peterwayner · 2009-01-12 01:19 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  For more information, you can find the Table of Contents, FAQ and a few other case studies at my site.
  The Third edition of the book just came out. I think Amazon just got their copies from the printer.
Re:Help me! 5 Minutes of Computer time by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 01:34 · Score: 4, Funny

Could you imagine 19 giant black cocks repeatedly ass raping and mouth fucking you?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
ascii on *nix by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 02:11 · Score: 0

how do I ascii on *nix with alt+numpad?
OOOOLLLLLDDD by drmitch · 2009-01-12 02:40 · Score: 2, Interesting

There have been console programs for *nix that do this for YEARS!
Re:Excellent! ...Not really embedded GOASTE - yuk! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 04:15 · Score: 0

Makes you wonder... jeez I've said enough already..... I'd rather not give the trolls any more ideas....
Excellent. by mujadaddy · 2009-01-12 04:58 · Score: 1

Mod parent insightful

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The end of artisanally hand-steganographified art! by fugue · 2009-01-12 05:04 · Score: 1

What? Where's the art in that? I love the handcoded steganographic puzzles like this (or, really, any of the puzzles in the MIT Mystery Hunt). There is real artistry in designing a unique code and--although it's not exactly standard cryptographic practice--building in enough clues that an outsider can, potentially, with enough caffeine, break it.

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"The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
Recursive ASCII steganography? by grimJester · 2009-01-12 05:07 · Score: 2, Funny

First to make an ASCII image of Xzibit that includes itself wins the Internet!
1. Re:Recursive ASCII steganography? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 07:28 · Score: 0
  
  Yo dawg. I herd u liek Xzibit, so I put an Xzibit in ur Xzibit so you can lol, while you lol.
2. Re:Recursive ASCII steganography? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 15:07 · Score: 0
  
  Xzibit
  Do I win?
ANCII art by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-12 06:21 · Score: 0

ANCII?
Hanging ASCII art on the wall? by dangitman · 2009-01-12 17:09 · Score: 1

That's not suspicious at all. It's completely normal.

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ASCII Art Tattoo for geeky nerds by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-14 01:10 · Score: 0

This is especially interesting in combination with:
http://www.tattooblog.org/entry/ascii-art-tattoo-for-geeky-nerds/