in reply to Text files and binary files

There are some easy ways of hiding information from prying eyes :

Use of any of these mechanisms will need the following approach to using your file:
  1. read the file
  2. decode the data
  3. process the data
  4. encode the data
  5. rewrite the complete file

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ; # The $d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider ($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new #in the HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' # web