Sorta like the National Forests... resource of many uses... may as well include a mixmaster payload in that worm :-) which also provides some other overt free benefit like antivirus or anti-helmetic or defrag or game or bayesian spamfilter or chat or screensaver or anon remailing client or free ringtone :-)"
Well, shit there's an idea. Particularly if the virus is benign enough not to get noticed too often.
A mini-mixmaster is a particularly wonderful idea, if you could get it to work....in fact, imagine a mixmaster network where each node only exists for a short amount of time. Your P2P ID messages for the mixmaster network should be invisible to users of the ostensible services of course.
-TD
From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: yes, they look for stego, as a "Hacker Tool" Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 20:14:19 -0700
At 01:48 AM 8/14/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >Then you have >the forest where every tree is marked and the leprechaun is laughing.
Love that story. But the self-watermarking you later mention is a problem. Even if you map a particular hash into one of a million known-benign values, which takes work, there are multiple orthagonal hash algorithms included on the NIST CD. (Eg good luck finding values that collide in MD5 & SHA-1 & SHA-256 simultaneously!)
>> These hash-CDROMs are also useful for finding unlicensed software and
>> music.... > >Another reason for making your data unique.
In that case, yes, although ultimately the RIAA could hire offshore Indians to listen to your stego'd/uniquified Madonna song and identify it. (Of course, they don't know if you own the vinyl for it... and software can be sold by the original purchaser, too, right?)
>> And keep your tools encrypted, or on memory sticks you can flush or >> snap with your fingers. > >Beware of destruction of memory sticks
Yes something like a Tomlinson (_Big Breach_) sleight of hand with a Psion card is a good idea, as is the microwave oven trash can next to your machine :-)
>A neat trick to lower the suspicion-factor for stego in JPEG or video >could be releasing a closed-source program for Windows as either freeware >... and there still is a segment of consumers who think that >when it is free, it's worthless)
And a larger segment which will stick any CD they get in the mail into their bootable drive.. LOL
>The sheeple don't have to be only a threat. They can be useful, if their >gullibility is properly exploited.
Sorta like the National Forests... resource of many uses... may as well include a mixmaster payload in that worm :-) which also provides some other overt free benefit like antivirus or anti-helmetic or defrag or game or bayesian spamfilter or chat or screensaver or anon remailing client or free ringtone :-)
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