I guess I'm still not being clear.  It would be my way of objecting to
   a court's ordering the telecom company that I might work for (or, one
   day, that I might own?!?) to present an "electronically-readable" form
   of the telephone metadata of millions of telephones.  The judge ordered
   that; my sneaky response would be to generate an
   "electronically-readable" file, basically a pdf file or a series of
   same, itself with an image that looks like "captcha" information:
   relatively easy for a human to read, but rather difficult for any
   computer to turn into easily-useable (searchable) information.  In
   other words, the information would be presented to the NSA, but it
   would be essentially unuseable without being (first) human-decoded.
   The result, I realize, would be a angry session in front of a Federal
   judge, who newly realizes that an "electronically-readable" form
   doesn't NECESSARILY imply computer-useability!  The judge would then
   amend the order to say, "NO SNEAKY TRICKS THE NEXT TIME, BELL!!!!"  At
   which point, I'd probably just have the order leaked.
              Jim Bell
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   From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
   To: jim bell <jamesdbell9@yahoo.com>; cypherpunks@cpunks.org
   Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 3:50 AM
   Subject: Re: "SIGINT tradecraft…is very hands-on (l i terally!)"
   That would be quite useful. How would you crack it if used
   by an opponent?
   At 01:11 AM 5/14/2014, you wrote:

     Alright, what I meant was this:  The judge ordered that the
     information be provided in electronically-readable form.  He meant,
     "not on paper", because if it were on paper, that would be very
     difficult to actually USE.  My idea was to put the information onto
     pdf files, where if you view the pdf file, it would look like lines
     of "captcha"-type data:  Weird, warped characters, in various odd
     colors, overlapping lines, etc.   [1]CAPTCHA - Wikipedia, the free
     encyclopedia    Specifically designed to NOT be
     computer-identifiable.  The essence of the presentation of the data
     would be that it wouldn't be readable by 'computer' at all; it would
     have to be decoded by human intervention...even though it was in
     "electronically-readable form"!!

                                  [2]image

     [3]CAPTCHA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
     A CAPTCHA (an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test
     to tell Computers and Humans Apart") is a type of
     challenge-respons...
     [4]View on en.wikipedia.org
     Preview by Yahoo
             Jim Bell

References

   1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha
   2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha
   3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha
   4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha