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The technique of embedding secret information in images without being detected is called image steganography. With the booming trend of convolutional neural networks (CNN), neural-network-automated tasks have been embedded more deeply in our daily lives. However, a series of wrong labeling or bad captioning on the embedded images has left a trace of skepticism and finally leads to a self-confession like exposure. To improve the security of image steganography and minimize task result distortion, models must maintain the feature maps generated by task-specific networks being irrelative to any hidden information embedded in the carrier. This paper introduces a binary attention mechanism into image steganography to help alleviate the security issue, and, in the meantime, increase embedding payload capacity. 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