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On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 8 May 2011, Roland Tarver wrote: > >> >> http://www.unixmen.com/news-today/1683-soon-secure-confidential-data-on-hdd-without-encryption-on-open-source-software-?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+unixmenhowtos+%28Unixmen+Howtos+%26+Tutorials%29 >> >> Sorry about the long URL. > > You can always use the various shorteners... e.g. I was not aware of their existence until now ....... although I have clicked on many shortened links hmmm .... :-s After a google there appears to be loads. Can you recommend one please? > > http://url.drogon.net/o > > This isn't news though - first reported a couple of weeks ago: I was not really posting it as "news" - merely a topic of potential interest :-) Are postings like this appropriate for this list? Or are most folks here scanning the various floss sites regularly in any case? I have perhaps 25 RSS feeds to keep me going! lol. I don't read them all mind. A few people seem to have found it interesting........ > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/26/cluster_based_steganography/ > > but the original paper is about a year old.. > > http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V8G-51BBKRS-1&_user=10&_coverDate=01%2F31%2F2011&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=ee913861b3d05b46b905bd4d52ca9380&searchtype=a#sec8 > > or > > http://url.drogon.net/p > >> An open source project into Steganography - hiding information in >> "plain sight". Might be of interest.... > > It's interesting, but not that it only works on FAT32 filesystems and simple > operations like defragging the disk will lose the data... hmmm that's less good. > Also, something like > > fgrep -i "bin laden" /dev/sda > > may still find what your looking for. Harder to grep for images though, but > there are tools to find fragments of images, headers, etc. given a raw disk > device. > > This may be of interest if you're interested in this sort of thing: > > http://www.truecrypt.org/ Thanks for that. Book-marked for a read at some point. :-) Whilst I am interested in it and I do use gnuPG from time to time, I don't have that much to hide.... Perhaps the actual value of my (negative!) bank balance and the odd photo of me as a baby! lol .... Best wishes roly :-) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq