Making Echelon Useless

[mea culpa <jericho () DIMENSIONAL COM>]

From: Magical Zombie Cow <waste () zor hut fi>


http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,31726,00.html

This campaign is largely bullshit, but good propaganda value.

Simple keywords won't do the triggering in Echelon. The method used is
more sophisticared and to score you need to mimic the sentencing structure
or the topic of the documents sought much more closely.

You really need to write out such stuff as plans to spread anthrax in the
US, plans to kill Bill Clinton, write to Osama Bin Laden or some other
terrorist they seek, perhaps planning to sell anthrax spores to him, or
applying for a mercenary terrorist job in the US. However, be aware that
this will likely result in a serious investigation done on you, and you
will have to spend a few months being followed and your phones being
tapped, etc. This has been verified. It might bring positive attention to
your company if you sell stuff that might be useful in the law-enforcement
circles, however. This might also be useful if you want to get the
police/FBI/CIA to put some attention on your friend's activities, as well
as bating the FBI/CIA/NSA and letting them understand that you are selling
drugs or anthrax stuff over the web, and let them make an expensive buy of
baking powder. No refunds.

Totally immoral, I know, but it is one of the really efficient ways of
fighting Echelon spying. This will also result in the fact that the
terrorists planning to really blow away the US with anthrax won't as
likely be caught, assuming they are stupid enough to use plain text e-mail
in the first place. IMO, anyone smart & crazy enough to cook anthrax or
execute an efficient terrorist strike in the US, is smart and paranoid
enough to use crypto as well, so this won't really matter from the
survival point of view. However, it does matter from the privacy point of
view in that you drive this point home to your law-enforcement agencies.

The job of the police should be to catch criminals. Not to prevent crime
by monitoring all the people all the time, or catch people by luring them
to commit crimes.

Paranoia is a sickness. Let's drive them mad because of it.

Hopefully echelon will become useless and the spooks will learn their
lesson.

So send e-mails in your friend's name telling someone how you will launch
your anthrax bombs in two days on a trip, or some such story, and laugh
away. 1984 is here and the spooks will come when you act a little
suspicious. Try it for yourself.

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