IMPLEMENTING COVERT CHANNELS OVER MESSAGİNG PLATFORMS

In the modern world Internet is basic communication vehicle between people. Every day it carries different types of information from one side of network to the other. A question arises here. How safe is İnternet for our confidential data? Acording to percentage of users of messaging platforms text containers can be one of the most ideal way of hiding information. Note that methods of hiding information in texts are called text or linguistic steganography. This article also discusses the creation of secret channels for exchanging confidential data using the Emoji linguistic steganography method. Most of Internet users prefer to use emoji instead of word during conversation. That is reason emoji is good feature for hiding confidential data. Keywords: confidential data, Text steganography, Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, Line.