Re:Dirt-poor and ugly – the proud new mantra of those left b...
by brownbat on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @12:03PM
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There's a hard dilemma between discoverability to audiences and obscurity to censors.
Steganography can work in some applications, but it's not a general solution. Common memes like Winnie the Pooh as a stand in for Xi are a way people naturally mask information through symbolism. Once it becomes common, censors watch for it.
If your image becomes popular, they will pull you aside. They won't catch every image, but they can increase general risks.
Even in one on one conversations, the risk is that the person you're speaking with could screen cap your chats and have you arrested, maybe because they themselves have been put in an impossible situation.
You might be able to solve for man-in-the-middle, but you can't solve for cop-on-the end.
Steganography can work in some applications, but it's not a general solution. Common memes like Winnie the Pooh as a stand in for Xi are a way people naturally mask information through symbolism. Once it becomes common, censors watch for it.
If your image becomes popular, they will pull you aside. They won't catch every image, but they can increase general risks.
Even in one on one conversations, the risk is that the person you're speaking with could screen cap your chats and have you arrested, maybe because they themselves have been put in an impossible situation.
You might be able to solve for man-in-the-middle, but you can't solve for cop-on-the end.