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===Physical=== Placing the message in a physical item has been widely used for centuries.<ref name=knit>{{Cite web|url=https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-wartime-spies-who-used-knitting-as-an-espionage-tool|title=The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool – Atlas Obscura|website=Pocket|access-date=4 March 2020}}</ref> Some notable examples include [[invisible ink]] on paper, writing a message in [[Morse code]] on [[yarn]] worn by a courier,<ref name=knit /> [[microdot]]s, or using a [[music cipher#Musical Steganography|music cipher]] to hide messages as [[musical note]]s in [[sheet music]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Newman |first=Lily Hay |title=How a Saxophonist Tricked the KGB by Encrypting Secrets in Music |language=en-US |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/story/merryl-goldberg-music-encryption-ussr-phantom-orchestra/ |access-date=9 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220608222058/https://www.wired.com/story/merryl-goldberg-music-encryption-ussr-phantom-orchestra/ |archive-date=8 June 2022 |issn=1059-1028}}</ref> ==== Social steganography ==== In communities with social or government taboos or censorship, people use cultural steganography—hiding messages in idiom, pop culture references, and other messages they share publicly and assume are monitored. This relies on social context to make the underlying messages visible only to certain readers.<ref>[http://boingboing.net/2013/05/22/social-steganography-how-teen.html Social Steganography: how teens smuggle meaning past the authority figures in their lives], Boing Boing, 22 May 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2014.</ref><ref>[http://www.scenariomagazine.com/social-steganography/ Social Steganography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714143900/http://www.scenariomagazine.com/social-steganography/ |date=14 July 2014 }}, Scenario Magazine, 2013.</ref> Examples include: * Hiding a message in the title and context of a shared video or image. * Misspelling names or words that are popular in the media in a given week, to suggest an alternative meaning. * Hiding a picture that can be traced by using Paint or any other drawing tool.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
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