With many methods being discovered and intercepted, the Office of Censorship took extreme actions such as banning flower deliveries which contained delivery dates, crossword puzzles and even report cards as they can all contain secret messages. Censors even went as far as rewording letters and replacing stamps on envelopes.

With every discovery of a message hidden using an existing application, a new steganographic application is being devised. There are even new twists to old methods. Drawings have often been used to conceal or reveal information. It is simple to encode a message by varying lines, colors or other elements in pictures. Computers take such a method to new dimensions as we will see later.