• ragas@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    Check out my cool new protocol that looks just like I am loading a webpage about cat facts, which is actually a hidden VPN that I use to secretly look at webpages about cat facts.

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      9 hours ago

      There is actually a technique called steganography, that does exactly that. It is used to hide arbitrary binary info inside images, while still fooling your eyes into thinking there is nothing sketchy there.

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        52 minutes ago

        Can’t it be detected? I imagine ML could be used to automate to some extent.

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        9 hours ago

        I know! Nothing about all this is new.

        The only new thing is that the UK government is about to learn about those things.