Ken Brown wrote:
& so (the author claims) bypass Echelon. Hmmm. Whoever put the site up doesn't seem to have a clear distinction between cryptography, stenography & obfuscation. Does everyone have to reinvent the wheel every time? Are we going to go through it all *again* with mobile phone text messages?
unlikely. 160 chars doesn't leave much room for a stego message.
I don't think it is going to cause NSA any headaches. What chance do they have of knowing about a method which has only been described in Byte and on Risks? Presumably if you identify a posting as having been through Mimic & you can get enough text to recover the model you can retrieve plaintext reasonably easily -
it would probably be much cheaper and reliable to either infiltrate or black job the company.