VMs: RE: More shorthand trivia

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nick wrote:
>
>
> One frustrating thing about researching stenography is
> that 90% of people
> on the internet seem to confuse it with steganography,
> especially when
> talking about Al-Qaida's alleged use of the latter
> (haven't they heard of
> IRC channels?). :-/

This is no modern phenomenon unfortunately.  Bright in 1588 calls
his writing "Shorte, Swifte, and Secrete", in 1590 we have Peter
Bale's "Brachygraphie", with Thomas Newton's forward, numbering
Bale's heiroglyphic "invention" among works such as Trithemius'
"Polygraphiae", "Steganographiae", and the book on cipher by Porta
Neapolitanus.  In 1602 we have "The Arte of Stenographie,
...whereunto is annexed a a very easie direction for
Steganographie, or Secret Writing."

It seems stenography and steganography have always been linked
together.

GC