The S-Tools stego package had an appearance in tonight's "Law and Order--Special Victims Unit," with a suspected child pornographer hiding images of children in "they could be images of anything--sunspots, whatever."

"Stego...it's mainly used by spies."

Even a mention of the etymology of steganography.

I recall several mentions on "The Agency" and similar shows, usually involving the alleged secret messages from Osama (no evidence for this has been shown, to my knowledge).

Mentions of anonymous remailers are now almost commonplace. Looks like stego is catching up.

Implications for attempted bans on these tools, or "enhanced sentencing," are left to your imagination.


--Tim May


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