[ExI] possible scheme for privacy

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:58 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> Hey cool, this Forbes article gave me an idea:
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> http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/07/17/nsa-responds-to-snowden-claim-that-intercepted-nude-pics-routinely-passed-around-by-employees/
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> OK so the NSA reads email.  So here ya go: collect a bunch of salacious
> stuff, nude photos from anywhere that look like selfies, collect the kind
> of text that humans like to read, send it all over the place.  Then when
> you want to send a private message, insert it into a long-winded highbrow
> discussion from ExI, stuff normal people generally just don’t care about
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> us, discussions on ants, math, half full glasses and such.  Then take your
> text, insert it into the middle of the known camouflage text.  The NSA
> would never get past the nude selfies.
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​You are assuming that only people read email.  I suspect that computers
are scanning every word for suspect terms related to armament etc.

I did know of a professor who was known to read only the first couple of
pages and the last one of a long essay, so students filled the middle with
all sorts of irrelevant stuff they did not write themselves.  bill w

bill w​


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