huawei

Mon Jun 17 00:27:32 UTC 2013

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On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:34 PM, chris burri <chris.burri at hotmail.ch> wrote:

> Concerning covert communications, I have a short story to tell:
>
> Several years ago, I used to play World of Warcraft. The Game allows for
> LUA scripting, and the developers added some limitations as to prevent bot
> scripting. One of the limitations was that you could not export data from
> or import into the game (file load and save LUA functions were present, but
> have been disabled by Blizzard).
>
> To circumvent this limitation (I have some history of doing things deemed
> "impossible" by others...), I did two things:
>
> First, I wrote a LUA script that placed a field of 1024 dots on the
> screen. The script accepted a string of up to 128 chars and encoded it in
> binary. It would then set the dots on the screen according to the bits,
> white for 1 and black for 0. Finally, it would trigger a screenshot.
>
> The second part of the exercise was a small VB.NET program that watched
> the screenshot folder for new files. If a new screenshot was detected, it
> loaded the file and tried to find the dot-field within the new screenshot.
> If found, it would decode the binary - et voila: Data exported from the
> Game into an external program.
>
> Greetings
> Chris
>
>
> ---
>
> -= Amat Victoria Curam =-
>
>
> > Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:05:46 -0700
> > Subject: Re: huawei
> > From: trapperjohn117 at gmail.com
> > To: nanog at nanog.org
> >
> > Why is it so difficult? Hiding communications is an intriguing subject -
> My
> > ears perked up a bit at the Multics remark - Morse is something that
> > probably never would have even crossed my mind.
>
>

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