EDIT: of course I would misspell 'tech literate'... I hope that isn't keeping anyone from this because It's serious and I am hoping the right person (people in this field?) can tell us whether it is a possible lead or its nothing.
STEGANOGRAPHY: the practice of concealing messages or information within other non-secret text or data.
The technology exists today to hide secret messages, audio files and even other images within a single large image file.
The secret images or other information is embedded and cannot be extracted without the right software tools and understanding.
I am not well versed on these things but I have inside information that confirms this is possible and products exist which do this. I am concerned about saying too much and being identified, but I will try to contribute to the discussion. I am hoping to find some people who understand the technology and the possible encryption/software/ math involved better than I do.
What made me think of this tech being applied here is there are lots of images and other files in Podesta emails and other places that people have dug up, that are strange or unexplained. (mr potato head for example, or random innocent images attached to suspicious emails that they seem unrelated to) In some cases the files are unusually large. Here is an archived discussion from 8ch about some audio and image files that are suspicious and unexplained (https://archive.is/VxQvD)) a poster mentions that one of the images is too large to upload, which made me think this type of concealment could be at work.
Can anyone with a better understanding weigh in? If there are questions I will respond if I can but again I am not an expert, only a concerned observer with some information about this technology and these steganography tools.
Can someone try applying this to all of these suspicious images?
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ejd4500 ago
If you send me a list of wikileaks email links with files, I have some tools that I can use which attempt to locate stuff hidden in images.
But, if they put it there, they most likely encrypted it as well which is a dead-end. I checked a few images and never found anything - not even anything encrypted (doesn't me it's not there at all) but happy to check anything 'suspicious' you find.
salinaslayer ago
Here's one of the threads he started, in the first one he details how he had started to extract files
https://archive.is/j8Gle
ejd4500 ago
I checked the pizza file long ago, I couldn't find anything. In fact, I do agree with some of them there that some of it was dis-info.
salinaslayer ago
Do try the torrent file though, from my point of view this is the only course of investigation able to stop the media from discrediting the whole investigation, if you find encrypted communications and you can make out pieces people will come back to what matters. We didn't get a Weiner password pen drive unfortunately.
I'm considering the idea there's actually no pedophilia and this is a distraction for more straight-forward influence peddling and intelligence trade (which would explain Stratfor being involved) since what could better discredit any legitimate corruption investigation than people accusing famous politicians of pedophilia without concrete evidence. I find it hard to believe the business would be good enough to justify the network, plant people in the DoJ, etc if it were child abuse alone, pedos are a small part of the population and there are only so many pedos with the money for this "hobby" even in higher circles, presumably.
Whereas intelligence can be valuable to any corporation in any business, and the government has a near-monopoly on extra-judicial activities of that sort abroad. Highly valuable information for the right people/groups/countries, therefore. All outside of national interest considerations.
ejd4500 ago
I've considered this. There's this guy George Webb on Youtube piecing a lot together, but it's all about arms, oil, drugs, influence...
Youtube search "where is eric braverman"
The one I still can't get over is "playing dominos on cheese instead of pasta". Unless that email was completely faked...somehow...then I can't explain it.