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Conceal vs Steg - What's the difference?

conceal | steg |

As a verb conceal

is (lb) to hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

As a noun steg is

river wharf.

conceal

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (lb) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
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  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed .
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    steg

    English

    Etymology 1

    Shortening of steganography.

    Verb

  • (informal) To conceal (data) by means of steganography.
  • * 1994 , "Virtual Bob", Crypto Maniac'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.mac.programmer )
  • Stego rasterizes the image, then stegs data into the least significant bit (or LSB) of each of the RGB color values.
  • * 2002 , "the Pull", getting started'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.fan.cult-dead-cow )
  • Another project being worked on is stegging banned religious books from every language and putting them on the web.
  • * 2004 , David Clarke, Technology and terrorism
  • It has become an article of faith that bin Laden and his associates routinely communicate through stegged messages posted on pornographic Web sites.
  • * 2008 , "Steve Walker", Sick evil perverted pedos now helping terrorists.'' (on Internet newsgroup ''uk.legal )
  • Sounds like nonsense to me - if you're going to pass stegged files there's plenty of anonymous dropfile sites, no need to use CP facilities which are likely to be subject to extra law enforcement, surveillance and site takedowns etc.

    Etymology 2

    From an Icelandic word for the male of several animals. Compare stag.

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A gander.
  • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)

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