Posts Tagged ‘steganography’

A moment of hobo appreciation

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

I passed a lovely bit of time today reading The American Hobo by Colin Beesley, a British academic paper about a quintessentially American phenomenon1. I’ve always found the romantic aspects of the hobo story fascinating (something that Utah Phillips has only encouraged), although I suspect I’m too soft to have lived that life even had [...]

Perfect Steganography

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

You know what steganography is, right? “Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the sender and intended recipient even realizes there is a hidden message.”
Quite often these days this means encoding information into the insignificant bits of large binary files–changing the colour the [...]