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Re: [LUG] Bloody politicians! Rant.

 

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:48:07PM +0000, Simon Waters wrote:
> Steganography is excellent for bypassing surveillance precisely because
> you can share the image somewhere public. Sure in principle anyone
> looking at your images is communicating in a fashion, but throw in some
> "popular" types of images. Of course if someone knows you are using
> steganography it may break down

That's the thing: steganography scales badly. It could be used by a
terrorist cell for internal communication, but not to talk to potential
new members. And once you know the secret, it's trivial for an
intelligence agency to listen in.

Martijn.


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