As for the "how", one wonders some form of "fake-stego" can't be incorporated somehow into non-stego programs, such as zip/compression utilities, file-sharing and so on.
-TD
From: Thomas Shaddack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: S-Tools Stego makes an appearance in "Law and Order-SVU" Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 08:22:24 +0200 (CEST)
> Mentions of anonymous remailers are now almost commonplace. Looks like > stego is catching up. > > Implications for attempted bans on these tools, or "enhanced > sentencing," are left to your imagination.
Steganalysis is going to be a big thing.
Possible countermeasure is embedding a steganographed message (can be a random file with statistical characteristics equal to an encrypted file) into as many images as possible. The adversary will still be able to detect the data in the file, but the number of files with "real" messages in them could be just a fraction of the total amount.
A Microsoft(R) Worm(R) could be unleashed that would steganographically embed random files into all JPEG files found on the victim machines, for "diluting" the stego files in a worldwide scale; possessing/transmitting such image wouldn't then be automatically a reaspon for suspicion. Another approach, less effective but also less dramatic and more difficult to do in large scale, is to put such module into some popular graphics-editing software.
Opinions, comments, peer review?
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