Tim Griffiths wrote:
In message <87761312106967@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz> Peter wrote:
There have been various rumours and comments over the past few years that the use of crypto in certain countries (Syria, Iraq, possibly China) is very dangerous for the end user, but very little actual evidence to substantiate this. [snip, with reference to Iraq] He can't remember the exact details any more, but the implication was that any encrypted messages sent to them would result in them quietly dissapearing.
So a possible consequence of someone from Iraq being obnoxious on a mailing list, to someone in the know, could be several PGP-encrypted mails dumped in their inbox... A little extreme, for us gentles, but the threat should be effective.
If email not encrypted to a Korrect Kompany Key is filtered 'from' the recipient's mbox, I imagine it would also be filtered 'to' another mbox, for signs of suspicious activity. e.g. - an encrypted message to the CEO of the company from "Corporate_Spy@your_competitor.com" with a subject heading such as, "Information received--money deposited to your account." Of course, if the message enclosed was a bunch of garbage, encrypted to the CEO's private key, and then slightly corrupted, then that would make it all the more suspicious, interesting, wouldn't it?
Of course, spamming every Iraqui email address you could find with encoded mail could cause a _lot_ of trouble.
Not that you're a troublemaker... C-Spy