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ASCII Art Steganography

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Excellent! by Seriousity · · 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 · · Score: 1, Funny

      http://intersect.theintersect.org/riaa.html

    2. Re:Excellent! by seanellis · · 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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  2. Breaking news by Aiml · · 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 · · Score: 5, Funny

      That, plus being a Catholic priest should be enough to persuade most juries.

    2. Re:Breaking news by IBBoard · · Score: 3, Funny

      Being a Catholic priest persuades most people to clear them? I must have missed that one!

  3. can only encode about 40kB by OrangeTide · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not quite big enough for a torrent, yet.

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    1. Re:can only encode about 40kB by spintriae · · Score: 2, Funny

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

      Looks like 40kB was pushing it.

  4. Re:Seriously? by im_thatoneguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Behold Cloud Computing! Fast, Efficient, Scalab.. errr--hold that thought.

  5. An example of what it can do... by Copley · · 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 · · 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 Copley · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's beta code... there's bound to be a few errors in the encryption algorithm!

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  6. Re:already /.ed by Copley · · 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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  7. huh by pondermaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    who needs steganography when you can hide whole sites with slashdotting at least for a while...

  8. Re:Huh? by wisty · · Score: 3, Funny

    Still, it's good to know we slashdotted google. I bet that hasn't happened for a while.

  9. Real Men don't make backups by andyn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Real Men don't make backups. They embed their private data into ASCII art and let the world mirror it.

  10. Re:Seriously? by BenoitRen · · Score: 4, Funny

    And they say people don't RTFA...

  11. Hey dawg by Anonymous Coward · · 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

  12. Re:Help me! 5 Minutes of Computer time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Could you imagine 19 giant black cocks repeatedly ass raping and mouth fucking you?

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!

  13. Re:hang it on your wall? by digitalhermit · · 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.

  14. Recursive ASCII steganography? by grimJester · · Score: 2, Funny

    First to make an ASCII image of Xzibit that includes itself wins the Internet!