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Fake Web Traffic Can Hide Secret Chat
The Internet's underlying technology can be harnessed to let people exchange secret messages, perhaps allowing free, coded speech under oppressive regimes. So says a team of steganographers at the Institute of Telecommunications in Warsaw, Poland. Steganography is the art of hiding a message in an openly available medium. The system, dubbed retransmission steganography, relies on sender and receiver using software that deliberately asks for retransmission of TCP email data packets even whe...
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