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Printer steganography

Okay kiddo, have you ever played hide and seek? Printer steganography is like playing hide and seek with a secret message and a printer. Sometimes people want to send secret messages without other people knowing what they’re saying, and one way they can do that is through printer steganography.

Printer steganography is a way to hide a secret message inside a picture that is printed on paper. It's like putting a secret code inside a picture. This makes it hard for people to know that there is a secret message in the picture because it looks like a normal picture.

To do this, special software is used that takes the secret message and puts it in the picture. The printing process then prints the picture with the secret message. When someone looks at the picture, they only see the normal picture, but if they have special software, they can find the hidden message.

So basically, printer steganography is when someone hides a secret message in a picture that’s printed on paper, so that other people can’t see the message unless they know there’s something hidden inside the picture. It’s like a secret code that only certain people can understand!
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