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The sound of Spock's voice woke me out of the daydream I'd been having about my upcoming camping trip on Mt Hood - it meant my experimental program searching public social media for content with embedded steganography had found something suspicious. I wasn't really expecting to find anything, it was just a convenient testing ground for the process. Taking a look at what it found, I saw a classic picture of Mt Hood as seen from the Rose Garden here in Portland, Oregon. When I decoded, hidden message, it was simple coordinates and a short message: "45.344526 -121.709555 Post a picture of yourself at this location". Someone had clearly found a new take on geocaching, which looked like fun, though I was thought this must be something a closed group was doing, as I'd be surprised if very many people were doing something as obscure as looking for steganographic messages.
The sound of Spock's voice woke me out of the daydream I'd been having about my upcoming camping trip on Mt Hood - it meant my experimental program searching public social media for content with embedded steganography had found something suspicious. I wasn't really expecting to find anything, it was just a convenient testing ground for the process. Taking a look at what it found, I saw a classic picture of Mt Hood as seen from the Rose Garden here in Portland, Oregon. When I decoded the hidden message, it was simple coordinates and a timestamp: "45.956589 123.585693 202510050600". Someone was clearly setting up a meeting.

Latest revision as of 15:15, 13 January 2025

"Fascinating"

The sound of Spock's voice woke me out of the daydream I'd been having about my upcoming camping trip on Mt Hood - it meant my experimental program searching public social media for content with embedded steganography had found something suspicious. I wasn't really expecting to find anything, it was just a convenient testing ground for the process. Taking a look at what it found, I saw a classic picture of Mt Hood as seen from the Rose Garden here in Portland, Oregon. When I decoded the hidden message, it was simple coordinates and a timestamp: "45.956589 123.585693 202510050600". Someone was clearly setting up a meeting.