Stog vs Steg - What's the difference?
stog | steg |
(dated) (used passively) To be bogged, to be stuck in mud.
* {{quote-book
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, author=Charles Kingsley
, title=Westward Ho!
, chapter=5
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, passage=If any of his party are mad, they'll try it, and be stogged till the day of judgment. There are bogs..twenty feet deep.}}
(obsolete) To walk with a heavy or clumsy gait; to plod.
(dialect, Scotland) To stab; to probe; to thrust; to prod; to pierce.
(dialect, California) To have a cigarette.
(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 verbs the difference between stog and steg
is that stog is (used passively) To be bogged, to be stuck in mud while steg is to conceal (data) by means of steganography.As a noun steg is
a gander.stog
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* (l)Anagrams
* (l) * (l) ----steg
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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.
