RE: Net News as Cover Traffic

At 11:58 AM 12/1/00 -0500, Ray Dillinger wrote:

Yes, different. alt.anonymous.messages is simply a message mix. I'm talking about a system that would provide lots of encrypted traffic *ON THE SAME PORTS* as whatever other encrypted traffic you were sending. IOW, no one should be able to look at logs and say, "well, we can ignore that packet, it's NNTP. This other packet over here is mail, and probably the thing we're after..."

Do you really think all those pictures flying about on pictures-binary newsgroups are really of what they seem to be? :-) Look beneath the flab. Steganography. Crypto implications of cheap scanners, and a year or so later, affordable digital cameras. Even some hidden cargo compartments in MP3.