Security part 1 - Steganography
STEGONOGRAPHY
What is it?
-According to wikipedia steganography "is concerned with concealing the fact that a secret message is being sent as well as concealing the contents of the message." Steganography includes the concealment of information within computer files, images, video files, etc.
Encrypted data sticks out like a sore thumb. Steganography is the science of hiding information. Whereas the goal of cryptography is to make data unreadable by a third party, the goal of steganography is to hide the data from a third party.
Steganography also has some drawbacks. It is very hard to detect, which makes it easy for malicious files to get passed virus protection software etc.
What are your thoughts on steganography?
It's difficult to articulate in a sentence.
In short, although in short the main drawback is only relevant for those who use proprietary operating systems.
But unlike cryptography. steganography has social uses that go beyond just computers. Social Steganography in particular. So unless somehow humans can be infected with computer viruses, it doesn't seem like it has many drawbacks.
By cryptography does, because the very presence of a cipher can be incriminating.