Comments | jiggery_pokery: perfeCtly OrDinary subjEct

jiggery_pokery

perfeCtly OrDinary subjEct

Dec 15, 2005 20:51

Tons of people far brighter than me will have thought of this before, but it occurs to me that the apparently most relevant part of the LiveJournal FAQ does not prohibit you from using LiveJournal's Scrapbook photo-sharing feature for steganographic purposes - specifically, storing arbitrary content of your choice within an image file so that you ( Read more... )

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bateleur December 15 2005, 22:22:49 UTC

Steganography is degrading to stegosauruses and should be illegal.

sophie10 December 15 2005, 22:26:22 UTC

the pr0n sharing communities (none of which appear in my userinfo, but all of which appear in the hypothetical naughty second journal that may or may not exist)

This made me laugh out loud and startle my dog.

titanic_days December 15 2005, 23:11:13 UTC

I'd like more icon space, but as I intend to go out and about and use my digital camera a lot more, the extra space is also a very nice little boon.

But I'm not sure I quite get what steganography is?

jiggery_pokery December 15 2005, 23:50:19 UTC

Wikipedia explains it all. It's as accurate as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, you know. (sort of)

daweaver December 16 2005, 19:16:50 UTC

Wikipedia: a third less reliable than a reliable enyclopaedia.

Would a good quiz compiler trust Wikipedia implicitly as a sole source?

jiggery_pokery December 18 2005, 15:43:48 UTC

To be fair, I think the study doesn't quite reach either conclusion.

ewx December 16 2005, 00:03:45 UTC

If you can tell that steganography is going on then by definition it's no use whatsoever as steganography. i.e. if the question isn't academic then you're doing something badly wrong (or have broken definitions).

Stenography... meggitymeg December 16 2005, 00:20:40 UTC

I seem to have completely missed the part where you started referring to the practice as "steganography," and so spent quite a few confused minutes trying to figure out why you were all of a sudden so interested in basic secretarial skills....

*flails*

Re: Stenography... jiggery_pokery December 16 2005, 01:02:16 UTC

Well spotted, you. I have edited the original post to correct the missing GAs. I am missing GA.

D'oh. I am much more interested in megansnography than steganography.

Re: Stenography... ringbark December 16 2005, 07:45:45 UTC

From "http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html" - How to become a hacker...

Again, to be a hacker, you have to enter the hacker mindset. There are some things you can do when you're not at a computer that seem to help. They're not substitutes for hacking (nothing is) but many hackers do them, and feel that they connect in some basic way with the essence of hacking.

Learn to write your native language well. Though it's a common stereotype that programmers can't write, a surprising number of hackers (including all the most accomplished ones I know of) are very able writers.
Read science fiction. Go to science fiction conventions (a good way to meet hackers and proto-hackers).
Train in a martial-arts form. The kind of mental discipline required for martial arts seems to be similar in important ways to what hackers do. The most popular forms among hackers are definitely Asian empty-hand arts such as Tae Kwon Do, various forms of Karate, Wing Chun, ( ... )

Re: Stenography... jiggery_pokery December 16 2005, 10:38:18 UTC

Though, if I keep confusing stenography and steganography, evidently not the first. Ah well.

Have an old icon.

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