How to hide important files inside picture (.jpg)



Here is a tutorial on how to hide files in Jpg's. Please note it isn't
the most secure method but it's still cool to play with. A simple
solution to make this more secure, is to use encryption on the RAR file
when your create it, but thats not the point of this tutorial The idea is to show how files can be 'slammed' together, to stop the average PC user from finding them.



Step by Step Instructions



You will need the following..



* Windows 2000 / XP (probably Vista, too!)

* Basic Knowledge of the Command Prompt

* Winrar



1. Gather your image and the files you wish to lodge into it. Here I
have a meeting.txt which which I will slap inside my picture secret.jpg
. put the files inside folder hidden (eg.) as shown below







2. Add the files you want to hide into a new RAR archive eg. meeting.rar







3. Open Command Prompt by typing cmd in RUN and type the following
command (this is just example . comand depends on where you create the
file)

>cd..

>cd..

>cd hidden

>copy /b secret.jpg + meeting.rar lizard.jpg where secret.jpg is the
original picture, meeting.rar is the file to be hidden, and lizard.jpg
is the file which contains both.

as shown below







4 . so the new picture lizard.jpg which contained the hidden file is created







When you view the picture you will see only the picture (not the hidden
file). To see the the hidden file inside the picture change the file
extension from .jpg to .rar and extract it.



You can use this method to hide some files from average user.