[clug-talk] Online Privacy

[Dafydd Crosby]

Physical steganography not so much - 
http://elonka.com/kryptos/mirrors/daw/steinarticle.html
The beauty of physical steganography is that the encodings can be made 
where physical space becomes the issue (think Indiana Jones and the 
Raiders of the Lost Ark - the rod needed to find the Well of Lost Souls 
points out the spot on a innocuous model of the city). Essentially, make 
it so that there is a cultural/physical/temporal context, and the 
digital tools to break it become moot.

My favorite quote is at the very bottom:

"When confronted with a puzzle or problem, we sometimes can lose sight 
of the fact that we have issued a challenge to ourselves, not to our 
tools. And before we automatically reach for our computers, we sometimes 
need to remember that we already possess the most essential and powerful 
problem-solving tool within our own minds."

-Dafydd



Shawn wrote:
> Steganography has been cracked.  (http://www.jjtc.com/Steganalysis/)
>
> Shawn
>
> Dafydd Crosby wrote:
>> I think it was Dan Kaminsky who said "Nothing says 'I'm doing 
>> something illegal' like encrypted traffic"
>>
>> For real fun (and much less noticeable security), check out 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
>>
>> -Dafydd
>>
>> Jesse Kline wrote:
>>> With news that the federal government is introducing legislation 
>>> that would make it easier for big brother to spy on Internet users 
>>> (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/18/2043242/Proposed-Canadian-Law-Would-Allow-Warrantless-Searches), 
>>> I'm trying to put together a list of open source software that can 
>>> be used to thwart this invasion of privacy on the part of the 
>>> government. So far I've got GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org/) for 
>>> e-mail/file encryption, as well as Tor (http://www.torproject.org/) 
>>> for anonymous web surfing. Can the group recommend any other pieces 
>>> of software that helps preserve privacy on the Internet?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jesse
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>>
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