Steganography, what’s that again, and how does it compare to encryption? Steganography refers to techniques that hide messages or data, encryption on the other hand to techniques that protect a file from unauthorized access by encrypting it. The classic example to explain the concept of steganography is a message hidden inside an image file. No [...]

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Digital watermarking can be an effective way to add copyright information to images. Many bloggers like to add their domain name to images they publish on their blog. This is on the one hand understandable, considering the plethora of scraper sites that like to copy text and media without link back and copyright notifications. Regular [...]

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Many webmasters and photographers watermark images that they have created to add a visual copyright notice to the photo. This serves as a basic hotlinking protection and usually protects the image from being used by other websites without proper permission or attribution. Many applications are available to add watermarks to images ranging from image editors [...]

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Every webmaster witnesses content theft from time to time. Most of the time it is text or images that gets copied and published on other websites. There is however a solution for images that adds a visible copyright notice to them. You could use image editors like Gimp, Adobe Photoshop or Paintshop to create a [...]

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