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From time to time issues will arise under the evolving e-discovery rules that seem pretty hard to resolve – the use of steganography is one of them. Steganography is the art and science of hiding or obscuring messages so as to engage in covert communications. In terms of e-discovery and evidence scenarios steganography involves placing a hidden encrypted message in other data, usually a digital photograph, video file, audio file, or yes even spam. The recipient of the steganographic data would use a steganography key to unlock and decrypt the message.
Steganography is a dual use technology which can be used for the important goal of protecting sensitive communications and improper goal of hiding otherwise discoverable legacy communications.
Read the complete article at: Steganography and E-Discovery