Steganography

  

This has nothing to do with tonight’s post. I simply like Wordiply.

Apparently, cryptography is now considered to be archaic. (Who knew? Not I.)

Steganography is the new cryptography. I came across this new word in the What Is Glaze? section of The Glaze Project website. (Italics mine.)

But you ask, why does this work? Why can’t someone just get rid of Glaze’s effects by 1) taking a screenshot/photo of the art, 2) cropping the art, 3) filtering for noise/artifacts, 4) reformat/resize/resample the image, 5) compress, 6) smooth out the pixels, 7) add noise to break the pattern? None of those things break Glaze, because it is not a watermark or hidden message (steganography), and it is not brittle.

Steganography. Hmm. 

A dash of stegosaurus, a passing fancy for oregano or organoleptic. 

What led me to click into the website of The Glaze Project was a comment responding to an article by a dancer I once knew. 

Getting teary can be serious business.