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Russian Spies Thwarted By Old Technology?
June 30, 2010 -- The New York Times reported that the Justice Department had arrested a Russian spy ring in the United States. If the criminals had used more sophisticated data-sending, or steganography, programs, they might have never been caught. The idea behind steganography is this: instead of making your data unreadable with encryption, you're hiding the fact that there's data at all. So, for example, the classic example is the secret message hidden in a seemingly innocuous picture of a cat. The algorithms generally conceal the secret payload in pictures by altering the least significant bit of the pixels in the image. Read More
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