Back in like 2006 or 7 steganography was used in obscure corners of the internet ( like insurgen.cc, an early anonymous holdout that got broken up by the feds) to pass around hacking tools. You’d unzip the dangerous kitten photo with winrar and extract a set of hacking tools. One I remember passed around widely was the low orbiting ion cannon the /b used to ddos scientologists.
That’s crazy. Just read this and I’m just mystified
Back in like 2006 or 7 steganography was used in obscure corners of the internet ( like insurgen.cc, an early anonymous holdout that got broken up by the feds) to pass around hacking tools. You’d unzip the dangerous kitten photo with winrar and extract a set of hacking tools. One I remember passed around widely was the low orbiting ion cannon the /b used to ddos scientologists.
Wasn’t there some online service to hide documents in your images?
No idea, but I found this wikihow https://www.wikihow.com/Hide-a-File-in-an-Image-File
i’m sure there are an endless amount, and there are certainly client-side software that makes it easy as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography