[Details on the AT&T/NSA wiretapping]

Steve Schear s.schear at comcast.net
Tue Apr 11 10:02:08 PDT 2006


At 07:59 AM 4/11/2006, Tyler Durden wrote:
>>sure, this doesn't capture everything, but i suspect these filters are
>>tuned more for what they want to discard (p2p movie and warez traffic,
>>that'd eliminate quite a chunk, right?) than for what they want to
>>inspect.  (that is, what they want to inspect is everything they don't
>>consider useless and filter out)

>Another point that was made years ago on Cypherpunks is that the presence 
>of crypto "where it doesn't belong" is probably a very high risk 
>indicator. In other words, if your sender IP isn't some bank or big 
>company and you're using crypto, they probably grab ALL of that and send 
>it to high-cost processes.
>
>The moral of this story is: Use Stego in your P2P'd Porno if you want to 
>send anything discretely.

The increasing use of crypto in popular P2P (e.g., Azureus' newest 
releases) is a godsend for privacy.

Steve 





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