Ghost Ontology

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A Ghost Ontology is a steganographic technique consisting of the application of a privately-shared thesaurus of symbol replacements to an (inconspicuous) document, revealing its "true" intended meaning.

The quality of a Ghost Ontology is determined by:

• the inconspicuousness of the matched (input) symbols
• the lack of "false-positive" collisions with ordinarily-intended symbols

[edit] Application

Ghost Ontologies may be distributed according to a private-key cryptosystem. A web browser plugin, upon detecting an applicable Ghost Ontology, replaces certain text according to the ontology's pattern matchings.

[edit] References

• Ontology (Computer Science)
• Semantic Web
• Steganography
• Ghost Ontologies and the Future of Organized Crime (Article)