Stey vs Steg - What's the difference?
stey | steg |
(informal) To conceal (data) by means of steganography.
* 1994 , "Virtual Bob", Crypto Maniac'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.mac.programmer )
* 2002 , "the Pull", getting started'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.fan.cult-dead-cow )
* 2004 , David Clarke, Technology and terrorism
* 2008 , "Steve Walker", Sick evil perverted pedos now helping terrorists.'' (on Internet newsgroup ''uk.legal )
As nouns the difference between stey and steg
is that stey is alternative form of lang=en while steg is a gander.As a verb steg is
to conceal (data) by means of steganography.steg
English
Etymology 1
Shortening of steganography.Verb
- Stego rasterizes the image, then stegs data into the least significant bit (or LSB) of each of the RGB color values.
- Another project being worked on is stegging banned religious books from every language and putting them on the web.
- It has become an article of faith that bin Laden and his associates routinely communicate through stegged messages posted on pornographic Web sites.
- 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.