yes, they look for stego, as a "Hacker Tool"

[Major Variola (ret)]

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 :-)