Steganography 101 by Benn Jordan

When our government is spying on everything we post, we probably will still need to hide stuff.

WIth good steganography, hidden messages in plain sight will survive also social media compression, spotify, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhoJK02oD_E

#steganography #encryption #survival #fascism #autocracy #surveillance

Ok, to start, let me define "#steganography" in #infosec. Steganography in computer security is the practice of hiding information within another file, message, image, or video, making the concealed information undetectable to an unsuspecting observer.

It is not necessarily malicious, but it certainly can be. I tell you that story to tell you this one:

#Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests

CC silently alters the system prompt using invisible-ish Unicode markers. It encodes proxy / gateway classification into a sentence that looks like plain English. It hides the domain list behind XOR and base64.

Is it malicious? Probably not. Is a pretty big marker on the "Why not to trust AI companies" list of reasons? Yeah, yeah it is.

https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography

#AI #security #ClaudeCode #Anthropic

(Edit: doh, fingers faster than brain)