Social Steganography: Sending Messages in the Clear for Fun and Nonprofit (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cleartext)

Presented at A New HOPE (2022), July 23, 2022, 10 p.m. (50 minutes)

Much has been spoken about the topic of the "CIA triad" (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability), but much less has the topic of non-repudiation been discussed. In this talk, Greg will discuss how the most powerful propaganda is the selective telling of truth as he discusses deploying disinformation techniques developed for use in totalitarian regimes (specifically, a ride on the choo choo from Moscow to Beijing) in his own area code due to a combination of COVID and killer cops. Come to this talk if you want to learn to navigate in a cyberpunk hellscape of hot takes and cold reads so fearless and adversarial, when you're done using your free expression, they'll have to shut down your old scout troop *and* the Catholic Church that hosted them.

Presenters:

  • Greg
    **Greg (@garlicrouted)** is a queer, autistic, antifascist, Appalachian phreak who hasn't left the United States since the Obama administration, and has attended hacker gatherings on and off since Defcon 17. This is his first in-person HOPE. Greg has never been employed by the Central Intelligence Agency (so stop asking).

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