Posts Tagged ‘steganography’

Nerding It Up Tinfoil Hat Style

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

So, a few months back I was thinking about an upcoming trip to Boston. A trip not unlike the one I’m on right now, albeit shorter and without the 9 day, all-day meeting marathon. Anyway, I was thinking about this trip with particular reference to the USA’s apparent new policy of having border guards copy [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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