Actually, they finally found one early october 2001. Primary reference: http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/stego/abc.html Phil > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Ediger [mailto:eballen1at_private] > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 10:31 AM > To: OBrien, Brennan > Cc: vuln-devat_private > Subject: RE: Infected jpeg files? > > > 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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