Stewart Stremler wrote:
> begin  quoting Stewart Stremler as of Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:36:31AM -0800:
> [snip]
>> So... use the standard (hard to detect) steganography tools
>> to embed your important information in the image file, and then
>> put some mildly incriminating evidence in the zip file, and 
>> append the zip file to the image file.
> 
> [follow-on]
> 
> I wonder... this might be a rather simple way to bypass those
> filters that strip off zip archive attachments.  Create a simple
> image, append a zip archive, and send it around.

Certainly! For a while, this little trick will work for that purpose.

I predict that it _will_ be exploited for bad works, somehow, and then
there will be reaction that defeats the trick -- maybe even in the zip
programs (and relatives).

Regards,
..jim


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