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by chongli 4577 days ago
If I'm the Secret Police in some oppressive state, then I just need to find out whether you seem to be using stego — which is naturally against the law, itself, and hence grounds for arrest. Then, I can use rubber hoses, bamboo splinters, the threat of violence against your loved ones, and what-not to "brute force" your passphrase.

Me? I'm the entire population of the country. Which one of us is using stego?

To my reckoning, the search space would put the number of atoms in the universe to shame.

1 comments

Maybe start with the guy who uploaded the video to YouTube?