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Re: SOLUTIONS MANUAL: Advanced Engineering Mathematics, 7th Ed by Peter V. O'Neil

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From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:57
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On Fri, 2018-04-13, Huge wrote:
> On 2018-04-13, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:25:58 +0100
>> Rob Morley <nos...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11 Apr 2018 08:47:52 GMT
>>> Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
>>>  
>>> > Someone (in rec.games.roguelike.nethack I think) suggested they
>>> > may be steganographic messages.
>>> > 
>>> Because changing the least-significant-bit doesn't garble ASCII at
>>> all.   ;-)
>>
>> 	Which is why you don't use that technique with ASCII.  A really
>> simple technique for ASCII involves varying spacing after full stops and
>> commas. Use two spaces for a 1, one space for a 0.  End the paragraph to end
>> the number (9 in this case).

I was more thinking about the Message-Id and other headers Google
Groups presumably don't touch.

> Good luck with fitting any amount of data like that into a 23 word
> request for a ripped off manual.

/If/ the SOLUTION MANUAL postings are a transport channel for some
data, I expect it's for something like telling a botnet to start
working.  You don't need many bits for that.

/Jorgen

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