!!Con 2022 - Shhh, Meet Me at Midnight!!! (Audio Steganography in Python) by Marlene Mhangami

Shhh, Meet Me at Midnight!!! (Audio Steganography in Python) The term ‘Audio Steganography’ is derived from the Greek words steganos, meaning “covered,” and graphein, meaning “to write”. It refers to the art of enabling secret communication that uses interesting methods to hide information in plain sight. In this talk we’ll walk through how to send secret messages in music or audio recordings using Python! We’ll understand how computers store things as bytes and how knowing this can lead you to possibly win over the love of your life. Marlene is a Zimbabwean software engineer, explorer, and speaker based in the city of Harare. She is a director and vice-chair for the Python Software Foundation and is currently working as a Developer Advocate at Voltron Data. In 2017, she co-founded ZimboPy, a non-profit organization that gives Zimbabwean young women access to resources in the field of technology. She is also the previous chair of PyCon Africa and is an advocate for women in tech on the continent.