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On June 27, 2010, the FBI arrested 10 Russian spies who lived and worked as American professionals near New York City. The case, which unraveled an intricate system of false identities and clandestine meetings, exposed one of the largest spy networks in the U.S. since the Cold War ended and inspired the show The Americans. It also brought attention to steganography, a way of disguising a secret message within another message. The New York spies hid their secrets in plain sight, encoding communications within the pixels of seemingly innocuous images posted on publicly available websites. To read them, the recipient had to download an image, translate it into the 1s and 0s of binary code, and know which altered digits, taken in sequence, would spell out the secret. Steganography, which is both an art and a science, differs from the better-known method of secret communication known as cryptography. Where cryptography intentionally conceals the content of a message, transforming it into a

Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media | Quanta Magazine Home Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media Read Later Share Copied! Comments Read Later Read Later information theory Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media By Stephen Ornes May 18, 2023 In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never do it perfectly, but a new study shows it’s possible for machines. Read Later Carlos Arrojo for Quanta Magazine Introduction By Stephen Ornes Contributing Writer May 18, 2023 View PDF/Print Mode artificial intelligence comput

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