First Steganographic Image Found In The Wild 306
Niels Provos writes: "After months of searching for steganographic content on eBay and
elsewhere -- downloading millions of images, we were finally able to
find an image with a stegangraphic message hidden in it. Stegdetect and Stegbreak made short process with it. It took less
than a second to compute the secret key necessary to extract the
hidden message. Two commands at the prompt, and we found the hidden
message to be an image of B-52 scrapyard. Right off Terraserver."
I found the message! (Score:5, Funny)
yay. It only took me 10s w/Netscape to find the message
wow (Score:1, Funny)
Oh great... (Score:4, Funny)
This lends weight to... (Score:1, Funny)
Nothing to see here.... move along (Score:2, Funny)
But if you look at the Slashdot image: http://images.slashdot.org/title.gif you'll see cmdrtaco and cowboyneal with pasty white bodies on the well tanned French Riviera.
Re:Preview is my friend (Score:2, Funny)
;o)
In the wild... (Score:1, Funny)
DMCA (Score:5, Funny)
Unless of course they have a warrant, or the US government implements some more 1984 laws.
Re:Oh great... (Score:0, Funny)
we're going to need federal registration to download images off the web...
I'll give up my images when they pry my hot, sticky fingers...
On second thoughts, forget it.
Re:Oh great... (Score:5, Funny)
Now I'm beginning to see how evil and subversive those Find the Hidden Picture's were in Highlights Magazine I read as a child! See what diabolical effect it's had on my effort to draw a picture of a simple emoticon!
cccccccccccccccccccc
cccccc/ccccccccEcccc
ccccc/ccc====ccAcJcc
cccc|ccccccccccTcOcc
cccc|cccc====ccccEcc
ccccc\cccccccccAc'cc
cccccc\ccccccccTcScc
cccccccccccccccccccc
The horror, the horror!
Wow! That is amazing (Score:4, Funny)
I just kept staring at it and staring at it....
Re:MOD PARENT UP! (Score:4, Funny)
But, eBay did grant permission for the download. Somebody's client said "GET http://www.ebay.com/image/something", and eBay said "OK, here it is, catch!". If they didn't want to spend the bandwidth to send it to you, they shouldn't have done so. At no point did eBay not have a choice.
You may think I'm being needlessly literal here (and in a sense I am), but really this points out the fact that HTTP isn't a suitable protocol to use if you want to shape and/or limit your traffic in certain non-basic ways like eBay does. Not that I'm in favor of traffic limitations, though - anyone who can type a /. comment in less than 20 seconds will agree with me there :)
I've found the message ! (Score:1, Funny)
I send you this file in order to have your advice.
See you later. Thanks
Foil them easily! (Score:1, Funny)