At 12:28 PM 9/15/95 +5, you wrote:

Another way is to place the document in a PItA proprietary graphical format for transport and viewing only, stego identifier imbedded if you chose * , so that every portion of the document has some indentifier imbedded in it. Many obvious and many devious. Electronic drawings with a harmless and useless circuit(s) added on , software with do nothing code (by design!:) ). Difficult and time consuming to do, but for megabuck items, no prob. Automated for an additional fee of course. Start a service industry for such, make money, pay me back by running a fast, reliable remailer.

I seem to remember a software piracy case from a number of years back. The case was settled by Apple showing that their code had been copied by the copyright "easteregg" hidden in the roms. Made for a quick and effective demonstration in court. (The story may be apocryphal, but it makes for an example as to how such things do have a (supposed) valid use in protecting code from being snagged by other companies.) | Minister of Forced Caffinization in the DNRC | alano@teleport.com | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmerman unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | | -- PGP 2.6.2 key available on request -- | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano | <fnord> |