How Many Secrets Can You Hide in a Simple Photo?

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0:00 billboard
0:31 photoshoot
2:19 review the proofs
3:33 what do you see?
4:40 this is steganography
6:27 decode
7:13 Brandt takes the deep dive into further possibilities
8:00 "dead pixel" hex code
9:00 pixel row key
10:37 tiny hue skewed text
11:24 hidden QR code
13:54 if you enjoyed this, here's where to go next
14:15 Curiosity Stream ad
16:06 snap click clap whatever
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Downloadable photo from the steganography photoshoot
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"There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" transcript of Feynman's lecture
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Wikipedia article on the context of that lecture
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@ModernRogue 3 жыл бұрын

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@whatsupeveryone 3 жыл бұрын

Hey idk if you'll see this, but I really like all's content dude. keep this up, it makes my day better!

@dalesnider8040 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know what that is but if you can tell me what images were on your computer screen I'b gladly buy a tiny homemade wood stove off you.

@dalesnider8040 3 жыл бұрын

That was a human eye, wasn't it? The inside of a retina?

@dalesnider8040 3 жыл бұрын

What did you see?

@shaymorcormick8743 3 жыл бұрын

God you two are looking more and more like bootleg star wars action figures.

@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access 3 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty good at hiding in photos myself

@sttar3450 3 жыл бұрын

i relate too much v-v

@Snomadu 3 жыл бұрын

It’s my mans Bigfoot back at it again, ending up in every good video’s comment section

@Ocer. 3 жыл бұрын

Very good comment

@Ocer. 3 жыл бұрын

@@sttar3450 are you a bigfoot too?

@jman1121 3 жыл бұрын

Username checks out

@CK-ceekay 3 жыл бұрын

Somehow Brian has found a way to get Jason to do all the work so he can spend his time screwing with his hair

@josh7281 3 жыл бұрын

Best comment ever.

@cooleffectsfilms 3 жыл бұрын

Are you ignoring the Mohawk? They're becoming an 80's action tv show xD

@themilkmon 3 жыл бұрын

I love how it was immediately obvious to Brian that "sultry" is "back to back action"

@Hidsert 3 жыл бұрын

Brandt going over alternative options was great!

@riuphane 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm kind of hoping he does a video about it on his channel!!

@mangounchained2715 3 жыл бұрын

can we get Brandt to explain things from now on? I actually learned something on MR lmao

@DismemberTheAlamo 3 жыл бұрын

This is awesome, I just watched a pod cast where they talked about a streamer almost getting doxed because in the background of his stream there was a package that was visible and someone was able to zoom into the image and scan the tracking code on the package to get the delivery info

@ZackBlackwood97 3 жыл бұрын

Whenever an episode is left open ended with 'find the thing', I immediately tap out because I have no idea what the F to do. And I feel like an idiot for it

@shadeth90 3 жыл бұрын

dont worry, i too, never "find the thing".

@DasVERMiT 3 жыл бұрын

The last time I did one of these 'find the things' (the Zeta Provocation)... I got to the end where you left your phone number in a google doc and then I never heard anything about it ever again. No phonecall of course, but not even a followup video or any sort of resolution that I've seen. After that I gave up on these. :/

@devikwolf 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not going to actually extract the QR code hidden in the image, and instead I'm just going to ASSUME it's Brian doing the Dancing Baby.

@chrisbolland5634 3 жыл бұрын

But it could be jayson scream about nord vpn

@ericsilvester8577 3 жыл бұрын

If you're curious this is the video from the QR code in the image: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJh4ibx228uzcqs.html

@Kaylaonastring 3 жыл бұрын

@@ericsilvester8577 genuinely SHOCKED that wasn’t a rick-roll.

@humanoid251 3 жыл бұрын

Brian with his mullet and Jason with his mohawk. Samson and The Chooch: Fury Road coming to a theater near you YES!!!! I’m so glad Example Show is still a running meme!

@geoffschulz 3 жыл бұрын

Another way to hide information in a photo is to assign colors on the color pallet to ASCII codes. Since a minimum ASCII code is 7 bits of data, setting this as the least significant bits in a 24 bit pixel will make slight changes to the shade of the color, imperceptible to the eye, yet at the data level, can be directly converted. I use this method to hide copyright messages in my photos.

@Povilaz 3 жыл бұрын

I was about to go to sleep and you guys uploaded! God I love time zones. Also, I love these "hidden in plain-sight" videos.

@reggiep75 3 жыл бұрын

I remember doing sneaky things like this when I did my graphic design training in the 90's and used to leave loads of sneaky messages in images and documents that I worked on. At later dates, I'd get people to isolate certain colours which would reveal pentagrams around peoples head and the horns I drew on peoples heads. 😊😋 We'd also select our own palette of colours so that we all sent messages to each other on the same .BMP images with there being no compression on the .BMP format.

@Zelmel 3 жыл бұрын

"We have to install codecs..." -just clicks whatever pops up- OH! so it's one of those episodes that's secretly about computer security and them being awful at it!

@Zelmel 3 жыл бұрын

@@ProtoV33MK1 Sure, but as a computer security person: always read every popup that comes from your actions and never click on one that comes without your direct action unless you know 100% that it's legit. Also update your software. ALWAYS UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE.

@leppeppel 3 жыл бұрын

I enjoy steganography too, but once you're manually adjusting the colour values of individual pixels, it's like "why bother?" If you're just sending coded messages to your friends, no one else is trying to read them anyway. I file it under 'making the Mona Lisa out of toast.'

@nullcircuit 3 жыл бұрын

Brian is really channeling some Gordon Freeman vibes and I am here for it

@KaitouKaiju 3 жыл бұрын

This is actually the key element needed for a project I'm working on

@shaunjones3507 3 жыл бұрын

Brians hair is giving me nothing other than Jamestown vibes

@k.s.m.1197 3 жыл бұрын

Collaboration ?

@KayhoticGames 3 жыл бұрын

Day 2 of asking jason murphy to chop Brian's pony tail when he's not looking

@soyeye6612 3 жыл бұрын

Well... he doesn't have it in the Curiosity Stream ad, so something happened to it...

@Dr.Ravendale 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: that’s actually assault.

@aristology6912 3 жыл бұрын

@asdrubale bisanzio found the twelve year old

@3en847 3 жыл бұрын

@asdrubale bisanzio True

@TheMorganbobo 3 жыл бұрын

I thought it said "How many secrets can you hide in a simple potato?" not photo, but this works too

@dracoargentum9783 3 жыл бұрын

Not sure how long it will stay secret though... Too many eyes...

@sttar3450 3 жыл бұрын

i genuinely adore their hairstyles. i wish i looked that cool ahahha

@Gitarrist85 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I still had hair at all 🤷🏼‍♂️😅

@GolfhausYT 3 жыл бұрын

8:28 "Don't Look At the Moon" - Dude, Kris Straub is hinting there may be more Local 58 coming on Twitter.

@niklasneighbor6726 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! This will be useful to me!

@ZGBrickfilms 3 жыл бұрын

The ending where he showed the 4 messages that were edited into the photo blew my mind!

@riverlarsen8192 3 жыл бұрын

We are still waiting for the Scooby-Doo episode

@EdwardPorian 3 жыл бұрын

Love you guys

@blackbear92201 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome :D Those improvisation shots were perfected rehearsed I think (is that a paradox)?

@COMPUTERTECHATHUTCHTECH 3 жыл бұрын

This is wild!!!!!!!!!!!!

@gunnerzessau7115 3 жыл бұрын

I would love a Modern Rouge ARG.

@JamieAubrey 3 жыл бұрын

I WOULD NEVER have found those hidden pixels

@AsianJuggernaut 3 жыл бұрын

Brian's hair in the video you go to using the QR code is just wow

@thehaigu321 3 жыл бұрын

god these episodes are the best lmao

@goatness 3 жыл бұрын

An alternative to combining two images and messing with the contrast is something I did for work once. I wrote a PHP program that took two images and did a pixel by pixel comparison. Any pixels that different were rendered as white on a new image that was otherwise black. It’s basically the same thing but you don’t get the problem of darker and lighter areas of your image being illegible. In this case I was embedding user IDs, IP addresses, and access times (for the purpose of tracking pirate leaks).

@bretlemieux2489 3 жыл бұрын

Much love to the modern rogue family much love trying to get on to the dischord if it is possible

@benrosenberg3489 3 жыл бұрын

Now just combine this with hiding files inside the photo and you've got a lot of info/data being sent that's unseen

@sighmon5640 3 жыл бұрын

another thing you could do is hide information in the file of the image itself, in such a way that it is not at all visible no matter what aka, you can do a thing where when you open the image file with a text editor, such as notepad++, the coded message is at the bottom or something. if you do this you can also encode that message in any number of ways as your only limit is ascii text itself

@sighmon5640 3 жыл бұрын

heck if you're feeling spicy the decoded message could be a link to *another* image with a second coded message. or perhaps this other image could be the second half for the qr code thing

@samibrahim929 3 жыл бұрын

oh wow not even a minute since this was posted

@JakeTheGreatSnake37 3 жыл бұрын

Nice one. Already subbed Brandt

@duck7444 3 жыл бұрын

nice emergent bacon plug

@tanman999 3 жыл бұрын

That's the first time I've ever heard a rat tail refered to as "fly hair"

@benben9794 3 жыл бұрын

I legit just got my masks and am sitting here questioning whether or not this is really a cypher on the side of the box as it contains no numbers but is perfectly formatted to be a cypher

@romanh.4760 3 жыл бұрын

My brain: oh ye, the mullet and the mohawk doing spy stuff again

@O4C209 3 жыл бұрын

I have to admit, for the first time in my life, I'm tempted to get a mohawk.

@Veptis 3 жыл бұрын

An image has more than pixels: metadata like dates can easily be codes. Even the whole exif can hold every single Photoshop brushstroke for example, or custom data.

@dracoargentum9783 3 жыл бұрын

"So, if you need a third parent..." Lol!

@shanleyshoupe7873 3 жыл бұрын

this is like the meme where it tells u to zoom in on a part of the pic then that part tells u another part to zoom in on and so on

@wallrunner7635 3 жыл бұрын

ATX is a pc standard for form factor, idk if that was the purpose.

@mundaneanimator4921 3 жыл бұрын

BEFORE 500 BABAYYYY

@Number_055 3 жыл бұрын

Some people have been known to hide steam codes in social media photo posts. It's neat.

@solidsnakesasscheeks. 3 жыл бұрын

Finally mullets are making a comeback

@p0x914 3 жыл бұрын

Did mullets ever go out of style in texas?

@year6million 3 жыл бұрын

been had a mullet

@theblackbaron4119 3 жыл бұрын

@@p0x914 Depends on the amount of incest babies. Due to covid I can imagine the incest went up.

@awsomnes1001 10 ай бұрын

Brian is THE Mr. Gordon Freeman

@croakthedj 3 жыл бұрын

Your mullet makes me cry for humanity.

@curtishoffmann6956 3 жыл бұрын

This form of steganography is way too much work for practical daily use. If it can't be automated, it's not worth the effort for regular communications. Might be fine for escape rooms or challenges between friends, I guess. Otherwise, just stick to the earlier stega file embedder program, or use PGP (pretty good protection).

@UD503J 3 жыл бұрын

Some of the pixel value stuff you could script with Photoshop actions. The QR one specifically is fairly easy since you could build a droplet to open both images as layers and do the Difference filter.

@Bobsmith-xq2pr 3 жыл бұрын

Who noticed the SCP field code for "Does Not Stay Dead" on the board at 1:21?

@edarddragon 3 жыл бұрын

ah fuck where?

@Bobsmith-xq2pr 3 жыл бұрын

@@edarddragon right in the middle of the board, hard to miss if you know what to look for. It's huge

@kersedgamer2177 3 жыл бұрын

None of this is new information for you guys. you guys have been doing this stuff in your videos from near the start of this channel. Always love the content.

@KJCthings 3 жыл бұрын

"What is this, IDE?" Nice.

@JimmyEatDirt 3 жыл бұрын

Got my Masks! I saw one in the wild too, but didn't think to ask for a picture.

@harryfresco 3 жыл бұрын

Never clicked on a video so fast!

@zaxtonhong3958 3 жыл бұрын

The modern rogue: Gentlemen Warrior Steganography

@woodsytheowlscharedcorpse4761 3 жыл бұрын

Stegosaurs

@Estalarki 3 жыл бұрын

This is cool

@rylanrobbins5318 3 жыл бұрын

I thought the title said "potato" and got excited, then it turned to confusion when in the first 3 min. there wasn't a single mention of potatoes.

@river1711 3 жыл бұрын

My brain tigers feel pretty satisfied

@lukiepookie489 3 жыл бұрын

It's like the Mythbusters, but they're both like Jamie and Adam combined

@dracoargentum9783 3 жыл бұрын

If Jamie and Adam were 12, but a good, "let's build a realistic volcano" 12, not a mean "ants with a magnifying glass" 12.

@jayk7557 3 жыл бұрын

I don't think I've ever seen Brian with people normal hair

@gilbertvillarreal5334 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone else notice Brian’s hair is different in the sponsorship?

@lukar8154 3 жыл бұрын

So does that mean emergent Beacon is going to have a more in-depth video?

@BrandtHughes 3 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily about this topic in particular, but generally more in-depth than we do here on MR.

@MystLunarabne 3 жыл бұрын

2:06 I can hear the echo of the Nord VPN scream from Jason's face.

@eragon_argetlam 3 жыл бұрын

Wow. Haven't seen much of this before. Amazing to see just how deeply things can be hidden! P.S Hi algorithm :P

@goyrulastname8088 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, around when Brandt is running through the different techniques for hiding stuff, showing the photo and his editing software starting from 7:57 ; is the frame being constantly tilted intended to be morse code or is it simply being tilted in order to keep peoples' eyeballs constantly adjusting so that it's easier to watch the visual effects?

@yitzchokbraunfeld8333 3 жыл бұрын

I was also wondering about the "bad" video render

@1369brandon 2 жыл бұрын

I noticed the tilt too! It’s been 6 months. Has anyone figured it out???

@wolffgang101 3 жыл бұрын

dress opposite, i.e. brian with shoes and jason with sandals, and one has a mohawk and the other has a reverse hawk

@mrkrazedkillers6008 3 жыл бұрын

Jason looks way better with a mohawk than Brian does with a ponytail

@billdunkjr 3 жыл бұрын

This is bizarre and is like magic with all the hidden stuff. I am a doing fine and thanks for asking.

@VinnyF3 3 жыл бұрын

So uh is no one gonna bring up that Brandt's section is constantly rotating? I imagine there's a clue in there

@ko_bich7565 3 жыл бұрын

God I thought I was going nuts or something was wrong with my vision.

@levigrach750 3 жыл бұрын

You guys should do a manipulation and interrogation episode!

@johnlewan1114 3 жыл бұрын

Still waiting for "Cheese eating D-Bags"

@CoffeeFreakV2 3 жыл бұрын

If you ask someone who knows computers well, you could hide files inside a picture using zip or winrar, so how many secrets depends on storage capacity ;)

@altfurr7276 3 жыл бұрын

I just love ya guys, greetings from Russia!

@salimufari 3 жыл бұрын

Nice shameless plug in that QR code LUL. Well played.

@lucasbyron9436 3 жыл бұрын

Is there any meaning to the letters in the mirror? Has anyone figured out if there is????

@FarmsteadLife. 3 жыл бұрын

Never been this early before!

@Estalarki 3 жыл бұрын

Yo yoyo hi rogues

@jessetheunending9357 3 жыл бұрын

Does anyone have the OTP to decode the mirror message?

@simulacra7885 10 ай бұрын

"You do not recognize the bodies in the water"

@katrinahockman5561 3 жыл бұрын

PLEASE tell me that was a Local 58 reference in the hex codes.

@parsaghorbani20 3 жыл бұрын

i like jason hair.

@somethingclever42 3 жыл бұрын

Good

@HORRORBOISHA 3 жыл бұрын

Nope. I love the idea. don't have the patience lol

@jacknemo8021 3 жыл бұрын

Nice.

@dadenwenzl573 3 жыл бұрын

Brian looks like gordan freeman

@maxquintana3902 3 жыл бұрын

“*In-for-mation over-load*”🤖🤯

@thechessimist7034 3 жыл бұрын

nice ponytail brah

@camejko 3 жыл бұрын

Ok, some are these are basically impossible

@FinBrennan 3 жыл бұрын

Wait…I’m not the only one who thinks Anthony looks like Jake Gyllenhaal? 😂

@bigglesby12 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my. That rat tail. Uh...... hi Brian? What? Your poor daughter.

@kimokimo17 3 жыл бұрын

Rip mullet

@mmmy4282 3 жыл бұрын

ngl i feel like jason could be a voice actor for deadpool

@yitzchokbraunfeld8333 3 жыл бұрын

So I looked into the 4 explained codes. Dead pixel is color #8d1637 (not sure if that number represents something besides a tractor part). The QR codes sends you to this kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJh4ibx228uzcqs.html&ab_channel=BrianBrushwood . As for other messages, there's "go away bad guys", the article about grill cheese, all the pixel tweaking in the bottom left corner, the 7 pixel sequencing on right-hand side, acksmz (?) I'm honestly curious for the explanations and to know what I missed.