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And it all falls apart if one is using a text editor which highlights trailing whitespace (like emacs). The point of steganography is to hide that there is eve

• fredley 10y ago
  But if you saw that would you assume it's an attempt to hide a message? How often do you open up webpages in your editor and inspect the line endings? All steganographic methods can be detected if you start actively looking for them. The point is it's very hard to know what to look for, especially if you come up with your own coding which you do not share publicly (off the top of my head: using commas and full-stops to encode a bitstream in tweets.)