SOT: shitfs in spam trends and topics
mwilson-4YeSL8/OYKRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Mel Wilson) writes:
Two possibilities I can imagine.
2. Steganography.
Are you suggesting that we are receiving unintelligible e-mail because some group [terrorists, fbi, cia, csis] are trying to send messages to each other. Do you supposed that they are sending a lot of them and getting the e-mail addresses wrong or that they are sending a lot of them to confuse the trail to the intended recipient? If you were to ask me, I'd say that this is similar to the book _Snow Crash_. Microsoft is sending out these seemingly unintelligible e-mails and anyone that looks at them has their brain 're-wired' into liking M$. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you." TTYL, -- matthew rice <matt-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> starnix inc. phone: 905-771-0017 x242 thornhill, ontario, canada http://www.starnix.com professional linux services & products -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml
In article <lvekvjbapf.fsf-ESSLbfkwD4uye9+Y+OZS3dBPR1lH4CV8 at public.gmane.org>, Matthew Rice <matt-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
mwilson-4YeSL8/OYKRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Mel Wilson) writes:
Two possibilities I can imagine.
2. Steganography.
Are you suggesting that we are receiving unintelligible e-mail because some group [terrorists, fbi, cia, csis] are trying to send messages to each other. Do you supposed that they are sending a lot of them and getting the e-mail addresses wrong or that they are sending a lot of them to confuse the trail to the intended recipient?
"Confuse the trail", yes. Suppose you have a heavy security job and you suspect that there's a criminal plan hidden in some inane message about shoes. You find that it was sent by a naive high-speed user's compromised wintel box. You find that it was sent to 200,000 different people. What do you check next?
If you were to ask me, I'd say that this is similar to the book _Snow Crash_.
People mention that one a lot. Gonna have to read it. (_Cryptonomicon was good, but that has nothing to do with Neil Gaiman.) Regards. Mel. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml
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