Steganography: Secrets hidden in plain sight. There may be some hidden in these forums.

I did a Cipher puzzle using Steganography a while back... but now realize it was way too complicated for a typical cipher puzzle lol. My bad...

You would have to read backwards, use Steganography and ASCII Code to solve it completely. 😜

Here it is: www.abovetopsecret.com...



embedded in the image:

omxY ckg k bydscsf dkrd nodkyvp il
yrG novskc deyrqeybrd ord iuc
yC ofscevo dkrd ds govp
oborG ds owkm wybp yx oxy goxu
oqxkbdC nxk ceysbodciw ds nsn ivp

noibncQ u xhoim nc mlypib hc suxxcg
xyeuifW hc lypfcm xhu sula
zzI xluoa nC mygiw ahcbmulw hqix
xyjjclnM zi mnluj hi hacyliz xhoila
ylybQ mc mcbn lygiwqyh xylinm suqu

HmjhpdtzwfsxbjwFXHNNHtij:
56 57 50 55 51 49 56 46 57 51 32 56 52 55 51 53 48 46 52 56 45

Later I found out it's against TOS to use Steganography on ATS...

But who really checks for that kind of stuff... lol

a reply to: K1xaru

is there any easy way to scan images for hidden codes..

originally posted by: TheValeyard
a reply to: lilzazz



Dingle arms are tried and true though, and do work. I won't knock them.

Yeah right....

Of course they work until the Sabrina conversion unit goes tits up and leaves you with nothing but fractured odds and ends and a skin chicken.

Then what...smart guy??

eta....and what about the hogmagaundy calibration protocol? Not that simple now...huh?

I have no knowledge of Steganography. It does not mean it does not exist, only that I am unaware of it's presence in pictures or text or now data. Sounds like it is some sort of coding that can influence us somehow even though we are unaware it is present. Heard of that kind of stuff but I am not aware of it's effect on my consciousness.

a reply to: rickymouse

My understanding is it is the same as EXIF data in digital photographs. GPS location, camera type, settings such as f-stop and so on.

The text sits before the image data in the image file. Computers just ignore it unless you ask the program to display the data. Photoshop I think tells you the EXIF data in a side column.

That is about the extent of what I understand of it.

a reply to: NobodySpecial268

It goes a little deeper than the exif data. If you were to open secretalien.png in a text file editor, you wouldn't find the message at all. Nor would you find it, searching the exif data.

It has more to do with the actual bits of data that make up the image. Each pixel on the screen is made up of colour data and location information. What this actually is, is a string of 1's and 0's. These 1's and 0's are known as bits. Bits are arranged into bytes (groups of 8 bits)

I'll use decimal numbers as an example, as it is easiest to show and explain. Within each byte, the least significant bit, is generally the right hand most bit.

You can follow along here - www.rapidtables.com...

If you had a byte of data (8 bits) that was 10011011, then this would equate to the decimal number 155.



If you change that last bit from 1, to 0, (10011010) then you will notice that the decimal number, will only decrease by 1. (154)



However if you take our original byte of data (10011011) and change the FIRST 1, to a 0, then you will notice the number now drops to 27.



The left hand bit (first bit) has a decimal value of 128, while the right hand bit (last bit) has a decimal value of 1. In this instance, the right hand most bit is the least significant bit. (And it usually is)

In the case of images, the least significant bit is changed in each byte, to code the message. What is actually happening here is tiny pixels of color, are being altered ever so slightly from their original colours. But the colour alteration is so slight that the human eye simply cannot perceive it.

All colours are comprised of (again) numbers that in the end, boil down to combinations of 1's and 0's. Below, I am displaying a lovely red colour, that is comprised of the RGB 255,87,52



Watch what happens when I change that last 52, to a 51.



It is still red, and nearly indistinguishable from the last red. This is in effect, what is happening when coding messages within the least significant bits of an image.

I hope I have explained that well enough.

a reply to: K1xaru

Now that's a bit more sinister than simple EXIF data.

rictor valve !! everybody thinks they can go right on ahead without a rictor valve!!

how are you suppossed to acheive proper sinusoidal depleneration prevention without one?

YOU WONT !!!!

and make sure your connectakazoints are all in order otherwise PHASE ISSUES!! THEN YOU WILL HAVE TO FLIP EVERYTHING UPSIDE DOWN !!!

GEEZ PEOPLE !!!!!

reply to: chr0naut

Some of you may recall that when UBL and other high ranking individuals in al Quaeda were given the good news by TF Green and TF Blue that many of them had MASSIVE porn collections, mostly stills.

Now you know why. Or at least now you know partly why. Most of those fellows regularly redefine the term “sexual deviant”.

a reply to: FaeDedAgain


My uncle had to refinance his house over a Riktor valve fracture!
The turn radius of the side-shamble wasn't pre-calibrated before he assembled the bi-locational Flim-Flam module,
and the added friction damaged multiple connection ports on the input-output jack and the heat fried the wiring on the torroidal masceration field emitter, which allowed input-output reuptake feedback to fry the orientation processor. He had to replace multiple parts!

It was a crazy ordeal. Luckily he was able to sue the company and get a replacement Riktor.

They offered a payout instead, but was like, "That one was faulty, sure, but where am I gonna get a better Riktor valve?"
They're in such short supply these days that they're like gold!

originally posted by: TheValeyard
a reply to: FaeDedAgain

My uncle had to refinance his house over a Riktor valve fracture!
The turn radius of the side-shamble wasn't pre-calibrated before he assembled the bi-locational Flim-Flam module,
and the added friction damaged multiple connection ports on the input-output jack and the heat fried the wiring on the torroidal masceration field emitter, which allowed input-output reuptake feedback to fry the orientation processor. He had to replace multiple parts!

It was a crazy ordeal. Luckily he was able to sue the company and get a replacement Riktor.

They offered a payout instead, but was like, "That one was faulty, sure, but where am I gonna get a better Riktor valve?"
They're in such short supply these days that they're like gold!

The administronium ore required to produce the amulite base is only mined in sufficient quantity in the volcanic islands of the Antillan chain, where the natives don't like anyone whose language contains an 'ee' sound (they think it is sacreligious), so, since their independence, they won't sell it anymore. This explains the current supply issues

and to think all this time I had blamed the supply issues on the russians.


a reply to: chr0naut