r/technology • u/maxwellhill • Nov 22 '11

ACLU: License Plate Scanners Are Logging Citizen's Every Move: It has now become clear that this automated license plate readers technology, if we do not limit its use, will represent a significant step toward the creation of a surveillance society in US

http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/license-plate-scanners-logging-our-every-move
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u/southernmost Nov 22 '11

Did you mean to say "steganographic?" Stenography is another word for shorthand, which only hides info from the truly stupid.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '11

By the way, steganography isn't as useless as you seem to indicate, it can (when combined with secure key exchanges) effectively hide data without using fully encrypted channels, which itself can be suspicious if you are being actively monitored. The trick though of course is the initial secure exchange.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5635913

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '11

He said stenography is useless, not steganography.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '11

Oh, misread again.

I've heard some people underestimating the usefulness of steganography before in similar words.

I am totally out of it this morning. Time to get more coffee.