| 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 :) |