At 23:33 1994/07/03 -0500, David Merriman wrote:
Grady Ward, over on alt.security.pgp/sci.crypt posted a little something to the effect (I'm paraphrasing, here) that sending a couple meg of random noise/bytes to an out-of-U.S. person/site would probably be a Good Thing To Do. ... In the middle 70s, after Tymnet went international, I would occasionally send a megabyte to our Paris computer in a proprietary compression format. I do not believe that NSA spent the time to decode our format, although it would been relatively easy for them to do so. I can only conclude that they did not then have blanket surveillance in place, else they would have contacted me. Both their capacity and international traffic have increased many times. I suspect that I could do the same now.