Hide Files in Pictures

This is a convenient way to hide information in pictures. Not meant to be a rebellious way to do anything. Just a way for me to hide certain information that could easily be misplaced. Think like a very important password or number considering that password saving utilies often get hacked.

Stegosuite is a tool for steganography, which is the practice of hiding data within other data. The tool has both a command-line interface (CLI) and a graphical user interface (GUI). The CLI version allows users to run the tool from the command line and automate tasks, while the GUI version provides a more user-friendly interface for manual use. Both versions of Stegosuite can be used to hide data within image and audio files.

    sudo apt install stegosuite

You can always ask for help by using the keyword “help” before action (like “embed)

    stegosuite help embed

This will return this example which is quite easy

    stegosuite embed -k my_secret_key -m "My secret message" /path/to/image_file.png

For example to hide a very important MFA recovery code I could run the following:

    stegosuite embed -k my_secret_key -m "012345678" /path/to/image_file.png

Then in order to extract the file

    stegosuite extract -k my_secret_key /path/to/image_file.png