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Re: Screening Outgoing Mail for Content


From: Ted Doty <ted () iss net>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 17:25:17 -0400

At 11:15 AM 8/5/98 -0400, Joseph S. D. Yao wrote:

And I haven't even gotten to Double Dutch - it's a pain to do manually,
and I'm not going to take the time to write the program to do it.

I remember thinking Steganography was pretty cool, but haven't really
followed it for a couple of years.
http://members.iquest.net/~mrmil/stego.html seems like a pretty good
source, tho.

But, my point is, you all understood the above pretty well, didn't you?
And the dictionary-based machine wouldn't have seen a thang.  ;-)

Even worse, liveware filters (the folks you use as censors) might not pick
up much.  PGP encrypted messages burried in an iguana-cam are likely to
pass most people by.

- Ted

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