Changing the wording of jokes and puns could provide the perfect camouflage for hidden messages being sent from person to person.
The technique is a type of steganography -- hiding messages in plain sight. The advantage of steganography over encryption is that while encryption doesn't tend to hide the fact that the coded message exists in the first place, messages sent via steganography are only known to exist by the sender and recipient. Anyone else looking at the data would just see the picture, the text or the piece of music being used as a carrier.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/13/jokes-hide-secret-messages
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