This 2MB Image Contains Entire Works of Shakespeare

A man named David Buchanan fit the entire works of William Shakespeare in a 2MB image. It’s an example of steganography, and it’s quite cool.

β€œSo basically, I wrote a script which parses a JPG file and inserts a big blob of ICC metadata,” he said. β€œThe metadata is carefully crafted so that all the required ZIP headers are in the right place.” This process was quite fiddly, he added, saying it took a few hours to complete, although he wrote the script itself over a span of a couple of months.

Since it’s a JPG image, you’ll have to unzip it via Terminal. Open Terminal, type unzip then drag and drop the image in. Unless you opened Terminal inside a specific folder, it will extract everything to your home directory.

Check It Out: This 2MB Image Contains Entire Works of Shakespeare

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