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by AnabeeKnox 2788 days ago
It's astonishing that it's as simple as CATting a zip file to the end of a jpg. I feel there are consequences here for any website that accepts image uploads.
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> I feel there are consequences here for any website that accepts image uploads

Steganography can be done even without file-format hacks; all that's special about this hack is its simplicity.

It could easily be defeated -- I'm sure Twitter would have no trouble sanitizing uploaded image files if they wanted to.