On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, OBrien, Brennan wrote: > Given that images are a major way of transmitting encoded data, it > stands to reason that the hooks could exist -- that is, it could be a > transport mechanism. However, the viewer itself would have to know to The view that "internet images transmit encoded data" is thoroughly discredited: see http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/21829.html Some researchers examined two million images from eBay, and found not a single image containing steganographically encoded data. Primary source: http://www.citi.umich.edu/techreports/reports/citi-tr-01-11.pdf But that's neither here nor there in the context of whether the dopey IE warning about viruses in images is correct.
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