There is actually a technique called steganography, that does exactly that. It is used to hide arbitrary binary info inside images, while still fooling your eyes into thinking there is nothing sketchy there.
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ragas@lemmy.ml 1 day agoLook at my cool new protocol that looks just like I am just loading a webpage about cat facts, which is actually a hidden VPN that I use to secretly look at webpages about cat facts.
jim3692@discuss.online 1 day ago
ragas@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I know! Nothing about all this is new.
The only new thing is that the UK government ist about to learn about those things.
piecat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Doesn’t jpg break this? And can’t it be detected? I imagine AI could be used to some extent.
jim3692@discuss.online 1 day ago
I didn’t say that it can’t be detected. I said it fools your eyes.
Besides that, stop using ML for everything. My guess is that you need insane amounts of processing power for ML to detect hidden messages inside terabytes of live internet traffic.
In fact, the algorithm for steganography is standard. It’s probably trivial to detect it, unless you add encryption and padding to the mix.
piecat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Stop using ML for everything”
I see no other way to drink from the firehose. We’re talking nationstate level resources.
Ugh@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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