Interfacing the law research Zalan Szakacs
Interfacing the law
Research question:
- How would be possible to set a pirate library through steganography?
- Which technologies would be used?
- Which books would be included?
Research ideas:
interest in hiding files in other files (imagine a PDF with an audio file?) A sound file has a whole library inside it. JPEG has free space inside it. (metadata ... EXIF data .... ) Steganography
hiding books in other books
censorship
books on the blacklist
read&seek
pirate library is pirating it’s own files
hiding pirated books in “official” library
Research references:
→ Funky File Formats
Binary tricks to evade identification, detection, to exploit encryption and hash collisions.
→ Steganography
Digital steganography, a set of algorithmic techniques for hiding data in files, is often used to hide text messages (or other digital content) within the bits of an image. In contrast to cryptography, steganography allows to hide the very fact that you are trying to hide something, an aspect that makes it really desirable for hidden communications or classified information leakage.
→ Javier Lloret - On opacity (2016)
→ Introduction to Steganography
→ Using PIL → Hack This: Extract Image Metadata Using Python
→ ExifRead 2.1.2 Exif
→ Wavelet compression