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Hiding Secret Messages In Skype Silences

Posted by samzenpus on from the sound-of-silence dept.

Orome1 writes "A group of researchers from the Institute of Telecommunications of the Warsaw University of Technology have devised a way to send and receive messages hidden in the data packets used to represent silences during a Skype call. After learning that Skype transmits voice data in 130-byte packets and the silences in 70-byte packets, the researchers came upon the idea of using the latter to conceal the sending and receiving of additional messages."

2 of 79 comments (clear)

  1. Move Along by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing to see hear.

  2. Whitespace! by Vlad_the_Inhaler · · Score: 4, Funny

    C may currently have overtaken Java as the most popular language but Whitespace is going to overtake them all!

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    Mielipiteet omiani - Opinions personal, facts suspect.