Just Carnivore (was: Yahoogroups and Carnivore)

Tue Sep 18 06:04:03 UTC 2001

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

>
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 18:01:53 PDT, Roeland Meyer <rmeyer at mhsc.com>  said:
> > However, given mil-grade VPNs these days, there is no way they can read what
> > you sent. They can only tell that you sent something. However, I just
> > discovered the Steganography stuff in my SuSE Linux distribution, hmmmmm.
> > But, they still know where it came from and where it went.
>
> As Bruce Schneier said, the problem with steganography is that you need
> a good cover story for why you're mailing JPG's of giraffes back and forth...

Porn makes for a pretty good cover-story.

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Len Sassaman

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