] Hydan steganographically conceals a message into an
] application. It exploits redundancy in the i386
] instruction set by defining sets of functionally equivalent
] instructions.
] It then encodes information in machine code by
] using the appropriate instructions from each set.

While looking through the presentation list for this year's CodeCon, this program caught my interest. A nice idea and it doesn't seem to have some of the negative effects of other steganographic methods, like bloating.

Hydan: Information Hiding in Program Binaries

] "Many of search requests are pretty reasonable - "Michal
] Zalewski" or "lame homepage" - but some are really weird,
] funny, or disturbing. I decided to set up this page,
] updated every few hours, with the complete list of all
] requests from several known search engines."

(packetstormsecurity.org's site of the week)

Its interesting to see what some people try to find on the net.

[lost souls]

] "The people are now the arbiters of the truth. And this
] is as it should be. The only people who are purely
] interested in the truth are the citizens at large. They
] are, therefore, the only people who can be trusted to
] find it."

A short rant Decius wrote about the impact that weblogs will have on the media.

Weblogs and Democracy