Stego worm

[Thomas Shaddack]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Peter Fairbrother wrote:

> > Any Chinese want to get immortalized in Internet history?
>
> And deleted with a bullet, for which they'd have to pay. That's insane.
>
> The creations of the majority of presently active virii/ worms are not
> attributable to individuals. :)

That's true. However, you can be immortalized even if your identity isn't
known; you can be known under a nym "unknown creator of the StegoWorm".

Besides, even Unknown Soldiers sometimes get statues. :)

> But:! you will stop all the people who are now using stego .. all two of
> them .. their stego will be corrupted

Only the ones who use it to store documents in images on read-write media.
The files in transit and on read-only wouldn't be corrupted.

Speaking of storing data... the best for stego are big not-too-compressed
or uncompressed files. Occassionally playing in a garage band or having a
DV camera could be a good cover for having disks full of the only copies
of WAV and video files, where no "virgin" versions are available for
comparison for bit-level changes. Decreasing prices of DV camcorders could
be helpful here.