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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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  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.

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

    Not quite big enough for a torrent, yet.

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  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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  6. huh by pondermaster · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  7. 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.