[jpalomaki]

Maybe with the text generating models (GPT-3 etc) we can soon create steganography solution, which hides your real message inside innocent looking casual messages generated from selected topic.

Add a suitable browser extension, enter the shared secret and "read between the lines".

[MonkeyClub]

No need for fancy language models, I was browsing GitHub Twitter steganography apps and came upon this:

“Twitter Steganography using manual annotation and codebooks (2014)”

(https://github.com/shadowrun96/pteroglosia)

Sure it’s an academic proof of concept, but pretty cool nonetheless, and a good combination of widely accessible technologies.

But I feel that the answer to the privacy question will lean more on low tech cunning and decentralization/reduced mediation, rather than hi tech or state-backed solutions.

Like, how do you get the NSA to not snoop on your itinerary? Buy a physical agenda/day planner, think in paper, speak face to face, walk, don’t take the phone. Easy basic stuff, though you may end up speaking in a hushed voice and utter terms like “the people”, “the system”, and “off grid” more often than usual - you know, usual for sheeple. Like a conspiratorial Tourette’s. Am I missing some rabbit ears there?

And of course we will always have rebus and heraldry (allegory and memes)!

Consider this:

“The Pooh duck-stepping a Lemming path towards a cliff.”

No tech necessary (other than the Internet, a mind blowing basic amenity), but every Chinese person can get a political message, where an algorithm would get a syntactically incorrect sentence.

“Go water bags!” is what I’m saying, I guess, though I think I lost my drift a while back :)

[MitPitt]

Just add "in minecraft" to every sentence

[0xMatt]

You can say ANYTHING if you add "in Minecraft" afterwards. Good call.

[barbuza]

You can get in lots of trouble for doing stuff "in Minecraft" https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-teenager-minecraft-terrorism/...

[jonnelafin]

You just made my day

[popcalc]

Reminds me of this very cool zero width steg project: https://github.com/vedhavyas/zwfp

I used the go code to develop an iOS app that, while I and my friends thought was very cool, Apple didn't think had enough features to publish :(

Edit: Obviously this isn't going to fly under the radar when a state actor is concerned.

[yvbbrjdr]

Interesting project! But yeah it requires little effort to detect

[yvbbrjdr]

Yes! I'm right now creating a steganography scheme with an NLP model.

We've actually tried implementing a browser extension before. The problem is ordinary people just don't use browser extensions..

[gnicholas]

Ordinary people can use browser extensions OK on desktop, but on mobile it's a mess. Chrome for Android doesn't support extensions, and no one uses the Android browsers that do. Installing an extension for Safari on iOS requires following many unintuitive steps. I hope mobile extensions become easier to install/use with time!

[keurrr]

The original version was a browser extension. It was very painful to maintain support for all the different types of input fields. Most large social media sites do not use standard text areas.

https://github.com/XCF-Babble/babble

[fariszr]

Something similar using random spaces is here. But its possible to decrypted by anyone since there is no password

https://neatnik.net/steganographr/