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HW's avatar

The book Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protestby Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum touches upon this idea of hiding within data by providing an excess of it -- if you want to learn about some concrete historical & modern examples of this type of subversion I'd recommend!

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Mariah's avatar

I wanted to mention that I read this book, and it was great! I'm going to make an update at the bottom of this post to direct people to the book---thanks again for the suggestion!

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HW's avatar

You're so welcome, glad to hear you enjoyed!

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Mariah's avatar

I'm fascinated by this and would love to learn more---thanks so much for the rec!!

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