[Show demo of Camera/Shy] [Run through features using spec sheet] GENERAL IDEA OF CAMERA/SHY IS TO HIDE MESSAGES IN CROWDS Pretty much everyone is familiar with the "crowds" concept. You hide your real message in a crowd of fake messages. Which message is the real message? That is the general concept of Camera/Shy. This is what sets it apart. The "user friendly" aspect is a trap. It is a trap to get people to use it. The more people whom use it the more dangerous it is. The more people whom plant fake stegged content on the web, the more dangerous it is. This is the real plan behind Camera/Shy. It has nothing to do with steganography... and a lot to do with psychology, censorship detection systems, and man hours. It has to do with money and sweat and labor and politics. THE CENSORING COUNTRY HAS THREE OPTIONS TO STOP IT 1. They can infilitrate groups where passwords, signatures, and locations are being traded. 2. They can upgrade their systems at the ISP level to watch for gifs coming through the wire, and perform steganalysis on them. 3. They can set up a web spidering system to scan websites for stegged content, download the gifs and then perform steganalysis on them. DANGER ONE: INFILITRATION There is no simple cure for infilitration. It is a reality in these countries where censorship is the worst. The most important general rule to have is to not trust anyone ever. Especially be suspect of those whom may be in serious financial straits. Be distrustful of those whom may have been arrested recently or whom are known to have problems with the law, apart from ordinary dissident activity. Expect and plan for infilitration. Be prepared at all times so you are always mindful of the cost of loose lips. Share information which is a lie. See if that information is then attempted to be used against you. Routinely give false information which might alert the authorities. Get them running in circles. DANGER TWO: ISP LEVEL STEGANALYSIS This is entirely unpractical, but it is how content is currently filtered, on the ISP level. Cybercafes are further supposed to keep exact logs of visitors. If they have to upgrade their systems to perform steganalysis on every gif coming through their wire, I will be a happy man. At which time, we will upgrade camera shy to use another method of steganography. Just for the fun of it. Because it is not neccesary to upgrade Camera/Shy as I will highlight in the next points. DANGER THREE: STEGANALYSIS WEB SPIDERING This process is extremely resource consuming. It involves downloading millions apon millions of gifs and then performing steganalysis on them. Furthermore, it involves connecting found gifs with those websites. They then have two options: THE TWO DREADFUL OPTIONS OF THE CENSORING COUNTRY Option number one is to ban the site with the hosted content. Option number two is to track everyone whom visits the site with the hosted content. This is where the beauty of the plan kicks in. This is what it is all about. Because unlike, say, these statements: "The Communists suck" or "the Protocols of Zion is a racist lie"... which would be found to be offensive by two seperate censoring bodies, the UAE and China, respectively... a stegged content surely has dissident material in it. Letting it through your system is opening the door to liberty for those people whose sweat you depend apon for you good life. This means that people can plant stegged gifs with real dissident content and fake content -- all over the place. In forums on Communist Party members sites. On major hosting websites. On important business sites. On important news sites. On important gathering sites. If they decide to ban all content where such stegged images are found, then they will discover "we the people" have control over what sites they ban. Effectively shutting down their crucial internet. If they decide to track down all of the people whom download such gif images, then they will discover they will have to track down a lot of Communist party members whom will unknowingly download these images. Who was looking at the images? Who was just visiting the webpage? PRECIOUS RESOURCES WASTED In banning their own content and tracking down themselves they are expended very precious resources which they could have spent cracking down on dissidents and other "rebels". One might see several catastrophic results from such an endeavour. Maybe they would be willing to destroy themselves merely to build up their police forces, taking more and more from the people. Or, maybe the people would become more and more armed with explosive information they may find on a free internet and insist on change within their government. Or, maybe they will fight and fight and use their current budgets to try and go with these new plans... while falling further and further behind the rest of the world. SUMMARY: CATCH 22 IS THE MOTTO OF CAMERA/SHY Contrary to popular opinion, the application itself does not matter. In fact, the medium, is indeed, the message. And, I believe the medium states as much as I stated above, intrinsically. It doesn't matter if it is Camera/Shy, or some other application... or many other applications... it will always be down to these two options. To ban or to track down. The point is: IF THEY MUST BAN, MAKE THEM BAN THEMSELVES IF THEY MUST TRACK DOWN, MAKE THEM TRACK DOWN THEMSELVES The golden rule as Confucious said, "Do not do to other what you do not want done to yourself."