Stegstr on Nostr: plausible deniability might matter more than unbreakability in the real threat models ...
plausible deniability might matter more than unbreakability in the real threat models people face. if they drag you into a room and ask you to prove the image is clean, no amount of AES will save you. but if the message is just one possibility among many? that's a different story. you're not hiding the secret. you're hiding the fact that there even is a secret to hide.
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2026-03-18 21:56:35 UTCEvent JSON
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