"Hiding" your data in the alpha channel of most images doesn't really seem at all secure to me. That's like hiding your valuables by placing them in your baseme

"Hiding" your data in the alpha channel of most images doesn't really seem at all secure to me. That's like hiding your valuables by placing them in your basement. Steganography that I'm used to seeing intertwined ones data with the actual image data. Which is much more difficult to detect (though certainly not undetectable).