Thursday, January 25, 2007

Embedding the evil within / Corrections Connection, 21 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qwxc
Sharon Goudy
"From terrorists to child pornographers, photos are providing the means by which they establish covert communication. Many of these criminals are experts at steganography. While it certainly sounds like something developed in the lab of a James Bond movie, the method involves using computer software to embed hidden text and images inside other images, which are called “carrier files” or “cover images, and then transferring them via the Internet."