jarandhel

Even if you start collecting bookmarklets that let you scan pages for certain types of hidden content, don't get complacent. Take the time, when you can, to view source and see what else may be hidden even on sites you visit frequently. Otherwise you never know, you might miss out on some hot elf sex... or other things even more interesting. Also don't forget that you can view the source code of each frame AND the whole frameset, on sites that use frames. Things like meta tags do not need to be the same between the various frames, and you never know what you might find buried in the oddest places. You may have never seen the important things on certain sites. Not all content has links leading to it. And sometimes the links that are there are designed not to be seen. Life is more than point and click.

That said, there won't be any hidden content in this entry. Well, not steganographically hidden anyway. Reading between the lines is, as ever, left to the reader.

I wanted to take the opportunity to also demonstrate a bit of the power of javascript (and bookmarklets) here, however it seems that livejournal strips script content from posts. This kind of annoys me, as there is absolutely no reason to do this. I'll try to set up a demo on another site when I have the chance, but for now I will instead point you to the following:

http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/

A bookmarklet that achieves similar functionality is available here:

http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kobayash/misc/bookmarklets.html

And to further elaborate on my cryptographic/steganographic musings, I give you:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/javascrypt/example.html

This uses javascript embedded into a page to perform encryption, but it is also a decent proof of concept to show that javascript can be used for this purpose. And if embedded javascript can be used to do this, bookmarklets can too. It's just a matter of coding them, and deciding exactly how tough you want to make the encryption. (Speed vs Security, as ever.) It also provides a javascript tool for performing basic steganography. It is very basic steganography at that, but again serves admirably as a proof of concept.