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Not here any more — A Payload No Scanner Can See
zsteg, Aletheia and five statistical detectors all called this file clean. The ZIP was sitting at offset 0 the whole time — hidden by splitting one bitstream across three different bitplanes.
Corrupted — Finding a Town Behind Black Squares
A GEOINT writeup: geolocating a censored Street View panorama in the Italian Alps using nothing but a poem's four constraints. Why the redactions were the biggest hint in the challenge.
Snow, Catenary, and a Confident Wrong Turn: Geolocating a Train Window
A single blurry photo shot from a moving train. The deduction chain landed on the right country in the first thirty seconds — and then I talked myself out of it for three hours. A GEOINT writeup about tool-induced hallucination in data-sparse regions.