Hiding secret messages in Skype silences

The hidden messages can consist of text, audio or video, and can be transmitted at a rate of almost 1 kilobit per second. And, according to Mazurczyk, the secret data is indistinguishable from silence-period traffic

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That’s about 128 bytes per second or a little less than a tweet or long text per second.