[ILUG] Re: please tell me

[Silvan delaney]

20/09/2001 03:55:52, Patrick Martin <sheryle at mediaone.net> wrote:

of course encryption is better, especially if done befor embeding the message into an image.
and i agree that this is unfortunatly one of the "easy" ways to get a very speciffic group of people
surfing and viewing. it's frightening stuff realy.
and yes i knew about the russian photographer: we during study- times in duesseldorf academy of art 
(joseph beuss) paid a lot of attention to that aspect of his work.
we didn't quit have the tech - help of today in those day's:the late 70's , but still were able to come up
with some *nice* stuff.
thanks for your help, pat.
silvan 
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>Encryption would be a far better choice for attaining privacy.  I wasn't
>implying that you were doing anything devious.  I was admiring the
>devious nature of embedding data into images from an hacker/engineering
>standpoint.  Somewhat related, image hackery, was a colorization process
>developed in the 1800's by the Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich
>Prokudin-Gorskii which produced color photographs.  It's kind of eerie
>to look at a 200 year old color still with kodak quality.
>
>http://www.ummagurau.com/art/russia/gallery.htm
>
>And I wholeheartedly agree.  I'd rather see people embed data into images
>rather than throw bombs :-)
>
>Take care,
>
>- Pat
>
>silvan delaney wrote:
>
>> not cool or devious stuff at all if you consider that all these guy's are*
>> listening* very intently to almost every bullshit that's going round! don't
>> we have need for privacy, without throwing bombs?
>> silvan
>
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