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Re:Show HN: Hide Secret Messages In Facebook Photos With My ... by DanBC on Monday April 08, 2013 @11:03AM (#5512093)
You're relying on volume of photographic posts to hide encrypted content?

Could you perhaps include encrypted content in many more photographs to make the volume of encrypted content higher, thus increasing the work load of dealing with encrypted content?

I'm not sure how hard it is to detect this content. Try this experiment. Download a BBC tv programme (Horizon works) from a torrent. Edits out a short 3 minute clip. Upload the clip to Youtube. Youtube has very many videos uploaded every minute, yet they ban your clip almost instantly.

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Re:Show HN: Hide Secret Messages In Facebook Photos With My ... by owencm on Monday April 08, 2013 @11:12AM (#5512169)
Finding such clips is vital to YouTube's business. Detecting use of steganography isn't vital to Facebook so unless it becomes a very public issue (e.g. is widely used by terrorists) they are highly unlikely to integrate detectors for it.

Either way, this is a marked improvement over sending private messages on the Facebook or unencrypted emails (and sending encrypted emails is a very fast way to get noticed).

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