IP: Re: dejavu -- Hijackers' e-mails were unencrypted

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Stewart, William C (Bill), BMSLS" <billstewart () att com>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Subject: RE: Re: dejavu -- Hijackers' e-mails were unencrypted
> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:09:40 -0500
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>
> >From: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw () cs cmu edu>
> >To: farber () cis upenn edu
> >
> > > Ed Gerck <egerck () nma com> suggests
> > > >I suggest this would be a much more efficient way to reduce the
> > > >misuse of our communication networks. For example, if one email
> > > >address under surveillance receives email from X, Y and Z, then
> > > >X, Y and Z will also be added to the surveillance. Even if
> > > >everything is encrypted, people and computers can be verified.
> > > >
> >
> >In other words, let's legitimize guilt by association?  How long will it
> >take for the transitive closure thus computed to include everyone on the
> >internet?
>
> Depends on whether the FBI counts mail from spammers in their tracking :-)
>
> Of course, the Spam Mimic program which constructs bogus spam text
> for steganographically carrying real messages means they may need to.
> An example implementation is at www.spammimic.com , though I can't
> send the output because it would peg everybody's spam-detection meters.
> The credits page http://www.spammimic.com/credits.shtml
> refers to Peter Wayner's work on Mimic Functions, for encoding
> arbitrary text using arbitrary context-free grammars,
> which are the theoretical basis for the site.



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