stenography/digital watermark in cellphone pic?

[Alex Dean]

On Feb 10, 2006, at 11:11 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote:

> I thought I might share this with the linux group... I am  
> interested in Stenography and downloaded stegdetect http:// 
> www.outguess.org/detection.php.
>
> I ran it on a pic I took with my Razr cellphone and it tested  
> positive for a hidden message!  any experts out there who can  
> verify this one?  it also registers for non-standard extraneous  
> header info.  if anyone wants the pic I can send it to you.
>
> I would imagine that the cell companies might like to embed the  
> user profile in the image to trace pics uploaded to the internet.   
> Is this what they are doing? jmz

Josh : This is very interesting.  Have you been able to determine  
what the extra information is that is embedded in your image?  Is it  
possible it's just extra non-standard EXIF headers?

alex