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Information hiding (found 86 titles)
Author: Ragnar BensonPublisher: Paladin Press
Publication date: 1996-09-01
ISBN: 0873648943
Pages: 152
Rating:
Price: $20.00
Forget about using the old "dead-baby's birth-certificate" ruse to get new ID. Everyone's on to that trick. What you need is the know-how to make your own documents on a home computer. And by following the simple instructions in here, you can.
Customes reviews 6
worthless (2009-12-23)
This book is severely outdated. These techniques may have worked 20 or 25 years ago, but are obsolete now. The government has had plenty of time to make sure than NONE of the techniques work. Dont waste your money.
Terrible work (1999-09-15)
This book had about as much information as a 5 year old on changing your identity. Any fool could figure out the methods the author uses.
It was stupid (1999-05-03)
It didn't have anything to do with fake ID's
A Huge Disappointment (1999-02-28)
This book is very general. There is absolutely no useful information. Any body could write this book in probably two sentences. I'll give it a try. "Acquire somebody's birth certificate and scan it. Change the necessary information and bingo". There you have it without spending $20.
excellent (1999-02-26)
a good boo
Author: Mark C. TaylorPublisher: University Of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1998-01-17
ISBN: 0226791599
Pages: 360
Rating:
Price: $32.00
"To read this book right, you have to read it wrong," writes Jack Miles in the foreword to Mark C. Taylor's Hiding, the first indication that what lies within is not your typical work of philosophy. Become distracted by its surface charms rather than convinced by its argument, in other words, and you've grasped the author's intent. Hiding aims to seduce as much as convince, Miles writes, and in that aim it succeeds.
A professor at Williams College, Taylor is a truly interdisciplinary thinker whose work draws on theology, art and architecture, linguistics, literary criticism, fashion, technology, and even tattoos. In Hiding, he takes these diverse influences and weaves a virtual web of postmodern delights. Even the book's striking graphic design is part and parcel of Taylor's thought, eliminating the dichotomy between what is said and how it is presented. Indeed, throughout Hiding Taylor explores the hypnotizing play of surfaces that characterizes late-20th-century life, holding that this play leads not to meaninglessness but an infinite expansion of meanings. In his final chapter, he speculates about a possible nontotalizing yet holistic system--a structure he visualizes not as "a universal grid organizing opposites nor a dialectical system synthesizing opposites but a seamy web in which what comes together is held apart and what is held apart comes together...."
Customes reviews 4
how to climb out of the postmodern soup. . . (2000-02-09)
A positive alternative to Baudrillard's dim view of the postmodern condition can be found in Mark C. Taylor's 1997 book HIDING--a philosophical re-visoning of our contemporary Western society that instead of clinging to vestigial epistemic notions of depth and foundationalism, embraces a holistic, worldwide web view of social structures. By way of an extended, elaborate metaphor that describes our ontological condition as being intimately related to our embryonic development (we are nothing more than layers of skin upon layers of skin, ad infinitum), Taylor suggests a new epistemic outlook that no longer makes an issue of depths, but rather focuses upon the complex relationship of interactive, interacting phenomena--in his phrase, "the profundity of surface." Emergent, virtual technologies retroactively point to our own socially constructed "reality" as always-already virtual itself, and to get caught up in the trap of defining contemporary phenomena in terms of outdated analytical models will only succeed in an inescapably circular logic; as he puts it, "After (the) all has been said and done, the question that remains is not `What is virtual reality?' but `What is not virtual reality?' (267). This shift in focus allows us to give our undivided attention to the realm of practice, to aesthetics, to surface; like Slavoj Zizek in TARRYING WITH THE NEGATIVE, Taylor would have us interface with things-in-themselves, allowing us to become aware of our positioning within a complex web of relations between phenomena, as well as what that positioning will allow us to do.
Ahead of its time (1999-05-03)
I first resisted Hiding. I wanted to disapprove of its subject matter (skin, mystery novels, fashion, Vegas, and on!). I really tried not to like it. But it's grown on me in ways that I find quite challenging. And that challenge is what's best about it.
There was a review in BookForum about Hiding that couldn't let go of the central tenet of this cunning book: surface is not to be underestimated. Surface (as opposed to depth) is not simply a dead-end but the beginnings of a new worldview. While older worryworts and curmudgeonly librarian types may protest this premise, sorry, I've got five words for all of you: Sean "Puffy" Combs, Grammy Winner.
The layout of the book is as provocative as its content: our current state of affairs. Supermodels are celebrities, COPS is reality television, Las Vegas is a family getaway, tattooing is our youth's version of long hair. All of these topics get brought up and explored in studied and thoughtful detail. Yet, Taylor doesn't dissect these cultural changes from a sterile laboratory atop an ivory tower -- he digs right into it. His section on fashion reads like it's a special pullout to W magazine (let's see that happen!) and you don't need a dictionary to make sense of the fundamental mysteries being wrestled with throughout this fast-paced tome.
It can be difficult, at times, to make sense of some of the more poetic or lyrical moments but then I also don't care much for rap or French cinema. All in all, I'd put this (quite beautiful to look at) book right up there with anything Barthes has written -- with the added bonus that this is an enthusiastically eclectic and sincerely postmodern collage.
A book fit for the coffee table (1999-02-09)
This book provoked consumer behavior for me. I am shopping for a good coffee table on which to place it. _Hiding_ is marvellous to look at, as well as to read. Taylor offers a sequence of interrelated inquiries into perceptions of the relations between the surface and the "realities" underneath. These inquiries are concerned with phrenology and eugenics, body piercing and gold-card fashions. This book may not emerge as the most important in recent postmodern theory, but it is one of the more enjoyable reads. With it located on the coffee table, your guests will believe you're hip to the latest theoretical fashions, your children will wonder what you're thinking, and your housekeeper will quit smoking to read during breaks.
Animal Dander (1998-11-29)
How to avoid any depth: assume everything is surface. This skin of this book is like some bloodied beast still staring at you after the slaughter. Ugly, unnecessary and (of course)superficial.
Author: Eric ColePublisher: Wiley
Publication date: 2002-05-27
ISBN:
Pages: 360
Rating:
Price: $35.00
* Explains exactly what steganography is-hiding a message inside an innocuous picture or music file-and how it has become a popular tool for secretly sending and receiving messages for both the good guys and the bad guys
* First book to describe international terrorists' cybersecurity tool of choice in an accessible language
* Author is a top security consultant for the CIA and provides gripping stories that show how steganography works
* Appendix provides tools to help people detect and counteract stenanography
Customes reviews 13
awesome book. (2005-06-01)
this is the best book on Steganography out there.
cole has a ton of great info.
Discover The Art of Hiding Data (2005-02-10)
Not knowing much other than the definition of steganography before opening this book I found it very easy to read and very informative.
Eric Cole has a background in working with hidden data and his experience is translated into a book that even users new to the concepts of covert communication can understand. The fictionalized stories of actual events help the reader to understand how these tools are used every day by both the good guys and the bad guys.
The book covers a basic history and background of cryptography and digital watermarking as well as steganography and then gets into more detail about the techniques and concepts of "stego". It does provide source code, but may not be "meaty" enough for steganography experts.
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Good, but basic, and the editor should be fired. (2004-12-24)
The information is quite good, though not very in depth. The examples are good, as they explain, "See, this really *can* be used in 'real life'." There is also some programming information, so for some parts (nothing critical, just program design), a knowledge of C is useful. Personally, this is my first book on steganography, so the technicality of the information was at a good level (informative, but not buried in jargon or advanced math). I have no programming background, but skipping the program designs was not a detriment in any way.
However... I think the editor should be bludgeoned once or twice with something heavy. I have written some documentation, and the editor did things that I know never to do. First, there are a few grammatical errors, which cause serious problems if you are not paying attention. (In one example, it is said the user (I don't have the book in front of me) "attaches her private PGP key, encrypts it with [the other's] public PGP key, and sends the email". This is after saying many times "NEVER EVER SHARE YOUR PRIVATE PGP KEY!!!". Then, the example goes on to say the recipient "uses the public PGP key, which is attached...". (The first sentence should have read "public PGP key"). In addition to one or two other situations like this, there is also an issue with the inline images. They all appear only at the top and bottom of the page, while the author clearly intends for some to be in paragraphs. The author says things like "as seen in this image:", but the sentence continues, and "this image", the number of which is not given, is elsewhere on the page. Further, many images have the eight resize anchor points and thick border visible from screen shots; these should have been Photoshop'ed out (it's not that hard, I've done it with Paintbrush).
If you are looking for advanced work, skip this. For a basic work, I would give it five stars, but the editors errors are so bad....
Silly editing mistakes and empty information. (2004-09-01)
Call me silly for expecting more from this. This book rollercoasters from the wildly vague overview to the distractingly specific detail and back again. The author shows promise in writing style but the editing needs some work. Typos and silly mistakes like the majority of the second half of the book's images appear taken from a Word document (or similar) while selected (border, drag handles overlayed) and LOTS of white space.
And how useful is 80 pages of printed source code? The CD is included, just save the trees and my shelf space please.
The author is a seemingly public figure (TV show appearances, etc) so I guess you can only expect so much.
If you're looking for meat on the topic, don't bother. If you want a basic overview in a weekend read, go for it.
An excellent book on steganography (2004-05-28)
First of all I would like to congratulate you on finishing the amazing book "Hiding in plain sight". It is really a state of art. You really covered the major part of steganography if not all. I really enjoyed reading your book.
Looking forward to your next publication.
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 2010-01-13
ISBN: 3642105823
Pages: 187
Price: $84.00
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Database Theory and Application, DTA 2009, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Future Generation Information Technology, FGIT 2009, on December 10-12, 2009, in Jeju Island, Korea.
The FGIT 2009 conference received 1051 submissions in total, of which 301 papers were selected to be presented at one of the events taking place as part of it.
The 22 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation at DTA 2009. They focus on various aspects of database theory and application in computational sciences, mathematics and information technology and recent progress in these areas.
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 2008-07-07
ISBN: 0387709916
Pages: 513
Price: $129.00
Advances in hardware technology have increased the capability to store and record personal data about consumers and individuals, causing concerns that personal data may be used for a variety of intrusive or malicious purposes.
Privacy-Preserving Data Mining: Models and Algorithms proposes a number of techniques to perform the data mining tasks in a privacy-preserving way. These techniques generally fall into the following categories: data modification techniques, cryptographic methods and protocols for data sharing, statistical techniques for disclosure and inference control, query auditing methods, randomization and perturbation-based techniques.
This edited volume contains surveys by distinguished researchers in the privacy field. Each survey includes the key research content as well as future research directions.
Privacy-Preserving Data Mining: Models and Algorithms is designed for researchers, professors, and advanced-level students in computer science, and is also suitable for industry practitioners.
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 2006-09-25
ISBN: 3540383417
Pages: 548
Price: $95.00
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2006, held on Samos Island, Greece in August/September 2006.
The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 188 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on software security, privacy and anonymity, block ciphers and hash functions, digital signatures, stream ciphers, encryption, pervasive computing, network security, watermarking and digital rights management, intrusion detection and worms, key exchange, security protocols and formal methods, and information systems security.
Publisher: Paladin Press
Publication date: 1983-12-01
ISBN: 0873642821
Pages: 102
Price: $15.00
This book covers the concealment places he couldn't fit into Duty Free. In here, he explains how to improvise large and small stash areas where no one will look. It includes instructions for transforming ordinary items into secure, made-to-order hiding places, info on security evasion and airdrop techniques and improvised landing strips. With these tips you can use almost anything as a hiding place from medicine to the Bible to fruit. For academic study only.
Author: Peter WaynerPublisher: Elsevier Science (reference)
Publication date: 2008-12-01
ISBN:
Pages: 456
Rating:
Price: $59.95
A Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Kindle Book.
Customes reviews 6
Accessible introduction to a fascinating topic (2006-08-12)
This is a very easy read that does not really assume much about the reader other than mathematical maturity at the precalculus level, knowledge of programming in a higher level language, and a curiosity about hiding information in such things as images. In fact, I bought this book to get a grasp on how to hide a watermark in an image. The early chapters are devoted to material that forms the basic toolkit for steganography - private key encryption, secret sharing, and error correcting codes. The later chapters describe how to apply these techniques in various ways to hide information.
Chapter 5 discusses common data compression algorithms, not to the point that you could write an encoder/decoder system, but so that you know which allow perfect reconstruction and which do not. Compression leads to the topic of mimicry, which is the subject of chapter 6. Basic mimicry produces text that looks statistically similar to the original text but is far from perfect. Chapter 7 shows methods of improving mimicry techniques so that the mimicked text not only passes statistical tests for similarity to the original, but passes rules for grammar. This leads to the concept of context free grammars and their role in mimicry. Thus, you can hide data in realistic sounding text.
Chapter 8 concentrates on a robust and complete model known as the Turing machine. Such a machine hides data as it "runs forward", while running the machine in reverse allows the hidden data to be recovered. Certain proofs show that this is a stronger data hiding model than those previously discussed.
Chapter nine discusses a more image-processing related data hiding topic - hiding in the noise. What appears as noise to the untrained eye can actually be a message. Of course, the flip side of this is "real" noise has the power to obscure the hidden message.
Chapter 10 discusses anonymous remailers, which is the deletion of the name of the originator of a message by an intermediate node. Such systems can range from very secure to very insecure depending on strategies involved. Chapter 11,"Secret Broadcasts", is a companion chapter on how to broadcast a message so that everyone can read it but nobody knows the source. The solution lies in the "Dining Cryptographers" algorithm, and this solution is discussed at length.
Chapter 12, "Keys", discusses message keys as extensions to the concept of keys in basic cryptography, which was discussed earlier in the book. Adding keys to any algorithm discussed up to this point makes that algorithm stronger. Chapter 13, "Ordering and Reordering", discusses how steganography strategies might be disrupted by reordering parts of a message, and discusses methods that might prevent this from being a problem.
Chapter 14, "Spreading", is a more mathematical chapter than the preceding ones and takes a different approach to the problem of information hiding. It takes ideas from spread spectrum radio and applies them to steganography. This is the one chapter where a knowledge of calculus, Fourier transforms, and even wavelets will be helpful.
The last three chapters, "Synthetic Worlds", "Watermarks", and "Steganalysis" are short and more subjective than previous ones, mainly giving the reader a broad overview of these topics.
The book has a wealth of algorithms, equations, and simple examples. There is even a very basic Java mimicry program in the appendix. However, this is not a programming book full of ready to implement solutions - you will have to do that yourself. There are numerous references to web addresses where you can find both executable and source code for implementing some of the algorithms mentioned in this book. I would say if you are interested in hiding information in data of any kind - text, sound, imagery, etc. - then this book is essential reading. I highly recommend it.
One year after purchase, I keep opening this book (2003-08-18)
All in all just a fascinating book on a fascinating topic. In general, the introductory parts of each chapter are accessible to anyone with a standard 12 year education. The mathematics are best understood by people with a background in algebra and statistics at the American High School level, but not much more. If you buy this book, expect John Ashcroft to put your name on a list of people buying dangerous published works (and with the Patriot Act in place, I am neither paranoid nor joking). The best chapter is the one about encoding information in ordered lists. This book taught me how to include a one line hidden message in a 50 item list of my favorite Country and Western Songs of all time (and THAT is a cool thing to do).
Excelent book (2003-02-12)
I read the entire book from first to last page and enjoyed the content absolutely. The book has theory and practice, clear examples and many references to free and open source software to make tests. The math part has razonable level (not too much, not to little). I have no found anything better in the area.
Good for Peter Wayner!
P.D. ...
You know you are a crypto geek when.... (2002-09-30)
This book is a great introduction to learning how to hide data in places most people wouldn't think about looking. Sample code and various URL's are provided for places to start, this not the easiest subject to grasp, but the book helps put it at a manageable level.
A great place to start!...
Cool, deep, although a bit goofy (2002-06-15)
This is a deep, serious book about making information transmogrify, even if there are a few silly parts. I liked the funny parts and they reminded me of Goedel Escher and Bach
Authors: Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, Vassilios S. VerykiosPublisher: Springer
Publication date: 2010-05-28
ISBN: 1441965688
Pages: 138
Price: $99.00
Privacy and security risks arising from the application of different data mining techniques to large institutional data repositories have been solely investigated by a new research domain, the so-called privacy preserving data mining. Association rule hiding is a new technique on data mining, which studies the problem of hiding sensitive association rules from within the data. Association Rule Hiding for Data Mining addresses the optimization problem of “hiding” sensitive association rules which due to its combinatorial nature admits a number of heuristic solutions that will be proposed and presented in this book. Exact solutions of increased time complexity that have been proposed recently are also presented as well as a number of computationally efficient (parallel) approaches that alleviate time complexity problems, along with a discussion regarding unsolved problems and future directions. Specific examples are provided throughout this book to help the reader study, assimilate and appreciate the important aspects of this challenging problem. Association Rule Hiding for Data Mining is designed for researchers, professors and advanced-level students in computer science studying privacy preserving data mining, association rule mining, and data mining. This book is also suitable for practitioners working in this industry.
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Publication date: 2010-08-15
ISBN:
Price: $1.00
This paper is a brief overview of the process of steganography and how it works. Included is a discussion of how it works, its value, detection, and tools available to perform the process.