Commands tagged steganography (1)

  • Embed .torrent in a .jpg file

    exiftool can also extract the 'comment' into a file :) Show Sample Output


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    exiftool '-comment<=ubuntu-11.10-alternate-i386.iso.torrent' hello.jpg
    dp3XTg · 2012-03-12 04:42:15 0

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