[wplug] Wiki Gibberish

[Sara Masters]

I used to get some email that looked like steganography, years ago, and sent
it to the FBI, who sometimes investigate this sort of thing.
Here's a page about this:
http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/computer_intrusions.htm
There are many links from here.

Sara

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Michael Semcheski <mhsemcheski at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> > 1)  Its steganography, and the bots are controlled by a powerful
> >>> > intelligence organization.
>
> >>> A bunch of organizations that want to communicate secretly use spam as
> >>> ways of sending messages where both the origin and target can't be
> >>> discerned.
>
> This is exactly what steganography is.  By its nature and design, it
> would be very difficult to prove or disprove that this was the reason.
>
> The classic example of steganography is putting shifting a few bits in
> a bitmap image so that the human eye can't perceive an alteration, but
> a piece of software can.  Just as an example, you could say that
> whenever the color red appears in the image, if the last bit is a 1,
> emit a 1.  If the last bit is a 0, emit a zero.   The difference is
> minute with a 24bit palette.  The human eye can't discern one color
> from another shifted so slightly.  But using that, you can build a
> message.  Very inefficient, but very difficult hard to detect or
> prove.
>
> I would imagine you could do the same thing with wiki gibberish.  They
> wouldn't be long messages, but you could probably easilly encode
> something small, like an IP address and a command.
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