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 | This page in a nutshell: This essay describes a general type of attacks that are hard to prevent using technical measures. It may be important to know about this type of steganography, to be able to spot it when it occurs in front of one's eyes. |
Using steganography, attackers may attempt to hide invisible text on any Wikipedia page. Contrary to HTML comments, this kind of text can be hard to spot even when editing the source code of the page.