Yet another spam generator

Tom tom at ricardo.de
Mon Jan 22 06:00:02 PST 2001


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.





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