• ragas@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    Check out my cool new protocol that looks just like I am loading a webpage about cat facts, which is actually a hidden VPN that I use to secretly look at webpages about cat facts.

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      8 hours ago

      There is actually a technique called steganography, that does exactly that. It is used to hide arbitrary binary info inside images, while still fooling your eyes into thinking there is nothing sketchy there.

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        I know! Nothing about all this is new.

        The only new thing is that the UK government is about to learn about those things.