When the activists at Hacktivismo.com announced they were releasing a browser-based steganography application during the H2K2 Convention in New York City later this week, we thought that was pretty interesting -- and brave, considering all the recent speculation about how terrorists . . .
When the activists at Hacktivismo.com announced they were releasing a browser-based steganography application during the H2K2 Convention in New York City later this week, we thought that was pretty interesting -- and brave, considering all the recent speculation about how terrorists can use encryption tools to their advantage.

The people at Hacktivismo, compatriots of Cult of the Dead Cow, are aimng Camera/Shy at human rights workers and censored folks around the world, and it features a "one-touch" encryption process that "delivers banned content across the Internet in seconds." Users of Camera/Shy, a browser-based application, can "share censored information with their friends by hiding it in plain view as ordinary gif images." So basically, put up a Web page with pictures of your baby, use Camera/Shy to embed information banned by government censors into the picture, and the person on the other end uses the program to view the information. It only works with Windows and IE at the moment, however.

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