doubtful. they probably receive the email at the destination then alert the chain-of-jurisdiction for investigation. count me as a technical skeptic of an 'untargeted' echelon program. phillip
-----Original Message----- From: owner-cypherpunks@Algebra.COM [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@Algebra.COM]On Behalf Of Mac Norton Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 5:12 PM To: Blank Frank Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: anonymity
Intercepted by the CIA? Do they regularly pre-screen POTUS's incoming international e-mail, or what? MacN
This approach might make a good test for ZeroKnowledge resistance to
i see your point. by 'targeted' in my comment, i meant looking for transmissions from a particular person. i suppose 'targeted' could also mean looking at messages sent to a particular destination. my specific comment is simply that I don't believe that either the competency or the computing power necessary to watch every financial transaction ($16T/day), fax, e-mail, phone call, ssl connection, etc. exists in the areas we might think it exists. whereas i do believe it's feasible to track traffic to/from servers (and other destinations/data origins). phillip -----Original Message----- From: owner-cypherpunks@Algebra.COM [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@Algebra.COM]On Behalf Of Ray Dillinger Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 11:17 AM Cc: Cypherpunks Subject: Re: anonymity Regularly intercepting POTUS' international email is hardly "untargeted". I figure that's probably a fairly routine, if small, part of Echelon. Bear POTUS = "President Of The United States" for all who aren't up on spook jargon. On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 keyser-soze@hushmail.com wrote: traffic
analysis. Since chain of evidence is useless for ZKS messages (if you believe ZKS) only TA could finger the sender. Any takers?
ks