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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
I would posit that a stream of non-sequitir tweets is not necessarily suspicious (depending on the person/account in question, of course). The classic steganography methods you're describing may appear less obvious (for lack of
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Yes, that's the simplest way to make the encoded tweets look natural , i.e., truly steganographic, but it's a fine balancing act between that and not making the corpus obvious.
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Isn't that what app.net is supposed to be?
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Thanks for hijacking my thread! ;) Seriously, though, how would your library work for twitter? It seems that the encoding process creates texts much, much larger than the original message.
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
I wouldn't use this with a bot account, since, as you say, it would become easy to detect those as anomalies. Instead, I was thinking that you might intersperse these in between your normal tweets, in coordination with the people you&#
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
True, you shouldn't use the same corpus more than once, so there's always going to be a coordination issue between the sender and recipients.
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Ευχαριστώ! There's no obvious way of telling where a "secret" sequence would begin and end. For now, it might be best left as a coordination issue, similar to the choice of corpus: e.g., you know that you'll be tweeting
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Thanks, I'll look into those suggestions, especially since I'm not really happy about using the middle dot (it's really not unobtrusive, and the entire system would work better if I didn't use it).
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Good idea about using typos instead of a middle dot marker (TBH, it's not as unobtrusive as I would like, so perhaps it's better to rethink that part of the system).
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
The output is a function of the corpus. So if Miranda doesn't usually tweet about the history of Mexico, he can pick other texts (written by him or others) which would sound more plausible as something he might normally tweet. Having s
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
The ad application is interesting; I hadn't been thinking along those lines at all... I considered using public keys, but I didn't want the resulting encoded tweet to be illegible or look like gibberish. The conceit here is that e
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
This is a side project I've been working on for the Lisp in Summer Projects[1] contest. It's a text steganography app using a simple book cipher, written in Clojure. I welcome any feedback from HN so let me know what you think! [1
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Show HN: Send Secret Messages over Twitter as Public Tweets(github.com)
128 points by dpapathanasiou 13y ago|60 comments
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
And using Japanese here is pointless. We're just doing our best to show off ;)
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
It's not the way I would translate it myself (I would say it's just a name, and really has no meaning), but it is a common English interpretation that's been floating out there.
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
おっしゃる通りです。ただ、「何」を天に任せると聞かれたら、「運」がいちおう適当な返事でしょう、ね。
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
For those who don't get it, that's the loose way of translating the three characters[1] which make up the name "Nintendo" in Japanese, though you wouldn't necessarily know it by looking them up one by one[2]. [1] 任天
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Alas, like the YC application form.
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Is this a side project for side projects? ;)
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
I created a wikipedia-style language learning site[1] starting with Japanese and English. It was inspired by a trip to Japan last year[2] after having been away for a while and seeing how badly my reading comprehension had deteriorated. [1]
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
I agree that it's better not to use an app, since you don't want to be dependent on a specific voice to get you going, among other things. The technique you describe (which I also use) is explained more fully by Roger Wells in &qu
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Soylent is amusing, but it ignores the fact that people take pleasure from eating food, a payoff which is hard-wired in our brains. No supplement, whatever its nutritional value, is going to be able to fill that need.
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
We're exercising poetic license here. Imagine a label for Poor Richard's Washing Powder and as part of the usage instructions it says "Early to bed, early to rise..." etc.
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Maybe a series of aphorims would be better, say quotes from Meditations of Marcus Aurelius or Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack , etc. Neat idea, though!
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10 truths a PhD supervisor will never tell you(timeshighereducation.co.uk)
1 points by dpapathanasiou 13y ago|0 comments
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Today is "National Dork Day"(nypl.org)
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
This is an interesting contrast to the recent Salon article about how TaskRabbit, etc., and their effects on the economy.
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Jim Buck, Who Made Walking Dogs a Job, Dies at 81(mobile.nytimes.com)
3 points by dpapathanasiou 13y ago|1 comments
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
It turns out the change in path was because of the weather in the North Atlantic today: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/11... Though if it hasn't landed yet, who knows
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
I have a language learning site[1] which started out as text translation, but I'm also experimenting with videos, the idea being it's helpful to see captions in both languages simultaneously as the video plays. Examples here[2], h

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