On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Ryan Byrd <[email protected]> wrote: >> b) as an id, so you can track who distributed copies when they weren't >> supposed to, such as (conceivably) audio/video at a movie theater > > you could tack on different amounts of whitespace to encode an id at > the ends of some of the source code lines. most people probably > wouldn't notice but you would be able to extract the id later on...
Only from source code, only if not cleaned first via a pretty-printer/indenter--not from any resulting binary. But, sure, you could do so some steganography via tabs/spaces/newlines hidden in the whitespace and/or comments somewhere. It just might not survive to distribution, and doesn't help you prevent resulting binaries from being produced and distributed. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
