[extropy-chat] codes in scam letters

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:25:56AM -0400, David Lubkin wrote:

> To be invisible, it needs to be in the noise. The Powers That Be can 
> enter into newsgroup propagation and randomize noise values before 
> passing the picture on.

Tampering with data in transit, especially content-gnostic noise
detection and substitution to pass statistic muster would be a 
GIANT SIGN advertising very, very impressive capabilities on 
Mallory's side.

While I have no doubt doing this for very select targets
would be quite doable, no way this is happening on a mass 
scale. It would be trivially to detect, and would be eventually
detected. That would plunge everyone in deep paranoia mode,
which would make Mallory's job much, much harder.

-- 
Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a>
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8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A  7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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