# Steganopornography **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 29, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194 "2010-05-29T15:57:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/21 "2010-05-29T18:02:15Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I would not have thought of doing that. But I should have been smart enough to check the source code. > > I wonder if, like ASCII art, there’s an automated way of doing this. There must be. Putting together something like that, one character at a time, would take forever. Someone’s probably written a perl or python script (or something similar) that can take an image and some text, and put together the CSS and HTML. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/22 "2010-05-29T18:03:21Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I wonder if, like ASCII art, there’s an automated way of doing this. I assume it was done automatedly… because that’s not the sort of coding I’d like to do by hand. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/23 "2010-05-29T18:19:02Z")
Holy cow. I didn’t even realize you could DO that with CSS. I have a couple of websites I’m working on. I’m thinking it’s Easter Egg time… ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/24 "2010-05-29T18:44:07Z")
OK, got it to work on my GF’s laptop. Wonder what’s up with my settings? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/25 "2010-05-29T18:47:49Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > OK, got it to work on my GF’s laptop. Wonder what’s up with my settings? I have the same problem in IE8. I opened it in Firefox and it worked. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/26 "2010-05-29T19:01:55Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > OK, got it to work on my GF’s laptop. Wonder what’s up with my settings? Might be that IE chokes on the CSS. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/27 "2010-05-29T20:27:51Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Might be that IE chokes on the CSS. What a surprise! :rolleyes: Works for me in Firefox, Opera, and Chrome, but not IE8. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/28 "2010-05-29T21:17:16Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I assume it was done automatedly… because that’s not the sort of coding I’d like to do by hand. You can tell by the lack of line breaks in the html part of the code ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/29 "2010-05-30T00:41:51Z")
I suppose it does count as steganography, but it’s weak steganography, in that the hidden signal is quite easily distinguished from the carrier signal. When I think of steganography, I think of minor bit-level variations in things like audio or video data, that would not be noticeable to or readily detectable by users of that data. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/30 "2010-05-30T02:03:00Z")
I’ve seen better examples. A picture of flowers that, when highlighted in a browser, turns into what have you. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/31 "2010-05-30T02:35:36Z")
I’'ve tried two different browsers and all highlighting it gives me is a page of highlighted French. There are NO links in the page. What am I doing wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/32 "2010-05-30T02:56:40Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > I’'ve tried two different browsers and all highlighting it gives me is a page of highlighted French. There are NO links in the page. What am I doing wrong? On review of what the heck CSS is: what I’m doing wrong is that I’m five years behind the curve on which browsers I use. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/33 "2010-05-30T03:05:22Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > On review of what the heck CSS is: what I’m doing wrong is that I’m five years behind the curve on which browsers I use. ☹ Oh my God.. what were you on, like IE5 or something? That’s just atrocious. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/34 "2010-05-30T03:06:58Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > On review of what the heck CSS is: what I’m doing wrong is that I’m five years behind the curve on which browsers I use. ☹ Download Firefox! Stat! ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/35 "2010-05-30T15:44:49Z")
I didn’t bother with any of that. I just clicked on the link and started masturbating. Was I doing it wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/36 "2010-05-30T16:28:07Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Oh my God.. what were you on, like IE5 or something? That’s just atrocious. ☹ No, it’s IE8 according to the properties listing. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/37 "2010-05-30T16:29:28Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > No, it’s whatever version of IE (couldn’t find where it says) that comes with XP. Just use Google Chrome. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/38 "2010-05-30T18:21:11Z")
So where are the stegosauruses? ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/39 "2010-05-30T20:32:45Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > No, it’s IE8 according to the properties listing. Huh… IE8 or IE7 should display the CSS. But you just never know with IE, which is why you should just download Chrome and/or Firefox (both are free; and much much better). ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194/40 "2010-05-31T00:28:48Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > There must be. Putting together something like that, one character at a time, would take forever. > > Someone’s probably written a perl or python script (or something similar) that can take an image and some text, and put together the CSS and HTML. Somebody did write a script. You can make your own steganoporn here: [http://metaatem.net/highlite/](http://metaatem.net/highlite/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steganopornography/541194.md?page=3)