NS&AT&T

[Chris Olesch]

You would think that if they wanted to lure customers into their spiderweb,
they would simply offer free internet access, and burry a 'we have the right
to spy on your' clause somewhere in the agreement. I'm sure the sheeply
would be more than happy to surrender their souls for that....hehe

On 18/05/06, Justin <justin-cypherpunks at soze.net> wrote:
>
> On 2006-05-17T15:42:41-0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
> > But the other axis is statistical (as you point out). It's far better to
> > never get caught in the NSA driftnets in the first place. This means
> stego,
> > this means P2P (hum...what if I had a P2P video of a document I wanted
> to
> > transmit...NSA wouldn't be able to read that document, right?) this
> means
> > (somehow) encouraging more crypto in more places so your traffic doesn't
> > stick out.
>
> I suspect that anyone caught by narus sending any sort of unusual
> encrypted traffic (i.e. not skype or ssl on port 443), particularly
> traffic to a published tor node or to a known mix node, is automatically
> put in the "somewhat interesting" bucket.
>
> Thus, the kind of people who can avoid being caught in the dragnet by
> using stego have already been caught due to earlier experimentation.
>
> If the NSA has access to ISP subscription records, which current news
> reports suggest they do, even changing IPs or ISPs is not enough.  You
> have to create a completely new identity, or you have to abuse an open
> net connection somewhere.  And open connections like wireless hotspots
> are probably already flagged due to interesting traffic coming from them
> in the past.
>
> --
> The six phases of a project:
> I. Enthusiasm.          IV. Search for the Guilty.
> II. Disillusionment.    V. Punishment of the Innocent.
> III. Panic.            VI. Praise & Honor for the Nonparticipants.
>



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