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)" <mv@cdc.gov>
To: "cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net" <cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net>
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 :-)
Tyler Durden