There are no countermeasures
Swellco & Swellco believes it can't hurt to believe
“Subliminal messages are a traditional threat to mass media but a novel one to multimedia communication over computer networks. Their effects had been controversial in the past in the area of psychology. Now it turns out that the advocate of such perception without awareness has been in the mainstream of the research community in this area. Multimedia communication has brought about the use of computer networks to transport images and sound. Consequently they are functioning as a new type of themass media. The traditional mass media has the well-known information providers who are liable for information provision. Use of subliminal messages in broadcast services are prohibited more by the rules of broadcast communities of the law of the land. On the contrary, everyone who has access to the network can be an information provider on the Internet, As it is hard to regulate the use of subliminal messages on such a network, they could be more problem than those in the traditional mass media. The problem is identical to computer virus in the sense that the information in question includes more than what the receiver is aware of. It is a type of attack to one’s belief in received information. It could be categorised as steganography butslightly different in that the information is invisible not only to the third party but to the receiver as well. The threats from subliminal messages, however, could be more serious than those from the other attacks, because the result of the attack is invisible. We need a technical solution to protect the receiver’s belief from the attacks by use of subliminal messages; the problem is that it is hard to differentiate a good use from a bad use. What is needed at least is a detection mechanism so that a receiver could learn the possibility of existence of subliminal messages. Once possible subliminal messages are detected, a receiver could check it up further if she wishes. Unfortunately, at this time there are no countermeasures”
-Digital convergence for creative divergence :proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Communication 2008 (ICCC ‘2008), Tokyo, Sept. 14-16, 2008
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