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  • How to hide secret messages in your Twitter updates

    by 
    Jon Fingas
    Jon Fingas
    05.09.2014

    Twitter offers a surprising freedom of expression within 140 characters, but what if you want to hide a message in plain sight -- say, to get around censorship? Well, it's now as easy as pie. Matthew Holloway has built a web tool that uses steganography (that is, hiding messages within other content) to put secret phrases inside your tweets. The technique replaces letters with similar-looking characters that hide a second message you can only reveal with the right decoder.

  • Super Tuesday iPod touch Easter Egg

    by 
    Erica Sadun
    Erica Sadun
    02.05.2008

    You have so got to love Apple. If you own a jailbroken iPod touch and have bought the January Software Upgrade, navigate yourself over to /private/var/mobile/Applications. There, you'll find your nikita_receipt.plist. Open it in your favorite property list editor, copy the payload (from <data> to </data>) and use your favorite online base64 converter to decode. Perhaps Apple engineers wish they could vote for Lincoln this time around. Thanks to the amazing DRP Team and pumpkin, and Francis who gave us the heads up on this