Subj : Re: Hiding Codes in Plain Sight Socialist Style
To   : warmfuzzy
From : CyntaxX
Date : Sat Mar 09 2019 07:02:55

On 09 Mar 2019, warmfuzzy said the following...
 
 wa> Several years back I was travelling and stopped by a Chapters bookstore
 wa> in the Canadian capital.  I found a few socialist magazines and picked
 wa> them up to read their rubbish.  It was shortly after picking these up
 wa> that I noticed something peculiar.  At the bottom of the magazine pages
 wa> there were lines and dots that seemed non-random.  On the bottom of each
 wa> page was a non-random pair of lines short-mid- and long that appeared to
 wa> code for something that the recipients would be able to decode yet not
 wa> be obvious to the casual reader.  After buying a book called
 wa> "Steganography: Hiding in Plain Sight" I was up on most of the lateset
 wa> techniques to convey information secretly. Anyways, so there were
 wa> artifacts at the bottom of each page in the magazine, that definitely
 wa> seemed non-random, and they could be explained away by claiming poor
 wa> printing processes -- however that wouldn't explain the particulars of
 wa> the markings which were semi-obviously placed there.  I don't remember
 wa> which magazine it was in that I saw this, as I was just picking up the
 wa> mag for kicks, reading it as someone would read the National Enquirer:
 wa> total "useful idiot" levels of rubbish.  Maybe you would be interested
 wa> in buying some fringe magazines and looking for potential codes.  This
 wa> would be a great way to convey messages covertly as you would have a
 wa> single printing house and worldwide distribution, so the source could be
 wa> fully controlled and the distribution would send identical code-laden
 wa> prints throughout the whole world, available at large book chains such as 
 wa> 
 
Well my job is a driver that delivers all magazines and books to stores such
as chapters/indigo and would be curious as to what kind of magazine it was. I
have access to most of these magazines and could look to see if it was a
continuous thing reoccurring. 

There's two types of magazines: Weeklies ie. People, In Touch, Star etc. then
there's specialized ie. Woodworking, Guns and Ammo etc. I'd be curious if you
could remember what magazine it would have been. Weeklies I would think would
be a smarter way to communicate something as it's a weekly thing, whereas the
specialized magazines tend to be bi-weekly or monthly so much slower.

I've skimmed through weeklies all the time to kill time even though it's all
full of crap about celebrities but never noticed this although I haven't
really paid too much attention. I definitely will now. 

Let me know if you remember what magazine it was and I can keep an eye out
and even get pictures.

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