Video Mules: (Was: Re: Psuedo-Private Key (eJazeera) )
(Referring to previous thread about capturing video.) As I sit here looking at a 64 MB SD Card that I just picked up for $28 at my local Wally World, I was wondering why it (or it is larger capacity brethren) couldn't be used to record video and then (after appropriate protection) swallowed. Probably a lot safer than what most "mules" swallow (I see a Compact Flash card begin a little hard on the digestive track, but a SD or MMC card shouldn't been such a big deal). I can see it now , "The new prison diet for recently arrested demonstrators: ex-lax and bran muffins!" -Neil
couldn't be used to record video and then (after appropriate protection) swallowed.
Eventually this will happen. Maybe a video recorded into a DNA of a bacteria synthesized in a portable device ("diamond age", anyone ?) Ne protocols will be required ("if I infect this east coast girl, how long it will take for the message to get to south africa ?") Which will have interesting consequences. For the time being the state is comfortable sifting through wired internet (after winning the crypto war) and listening to airwaves. Maybe body-size state-inspected condoms will be required at all public places. ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: Yahoo! Mail Plus Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Morlock Elloi wrote:
Ne protocols will be required ("if I infect this east coast girl, how long it will take for the message to get to south africa ?")
Lousy latency. Just put your DNA-encoded message in a microdot on your dead tree letter, and PCR/sequence on arrival.
Which will have interesting consequences. For the time being the state is comfortable sifting through wired internet (after winning the crypto war) and listening to airwaves. Maybe body-size state-inspected condoms will be required at all public places.
Steganography looks way easier, though.
At 10:23 AM 11/24/2002 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote:
(Referring to previous thread about capturing video.)
As I sit here looking at a 64 MB SD Card that I just picked up for $28 at my local Wally World, I was wondering why it (or it is larger capacity brethren) couldn't be used to record video and then (after appropriate protection) swallowed.
Because there's no particularly good reason? :-) Because you can hide it well enough on your person, either hidden or else in plain sight disguised as a coat button or a fake police badge or a <Peace Sign> or "Off the Pigs" button? Because if you're in a situation where there's a real threat of this, you're probably much better off doing some kind of radio relay so that the surviving members of your cadre can upload the data, either plaintext, encrypted, or stegoed? Mules are trying to transmit atoms, not bits, and if you're trying to transmit bits, there are lots of ways to transmit bits. Some of the memory flake formats are really pretty thin and hidable, though the rotating disk versions aren't as easily concealed. But if you can do the mechanicals do make memory safely and recoverably swallowed, you can probably do the mechanicals to fit a backup storage system in your belt buckle or shoe-phone.
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