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I've pondered the merits of someone spreading a virus that just sends (small, but relatively constant and random) amounts of encrypted data (maybe to other infe
by p1necone 6y ago
I've pondered the merits of someone spreading a virus that just sends (small, but relatively constant and random) amounts of encrypted data (maybe to other infected devices, and various other endpoints). Spread it widely enough and everyone gets to communicate privately with plausible deniability.
Of course it doesn't even need to be real data, random gibberish would work too.
- lcuff 6y agoPerhaps. Back in the 80's, folks on Usenet would add words like "nuclear", "bomb", "spy", "communist" to their email footers and posting signatures, in hopes of overloading the (suspected/expected) NSA monitoring of traffic. I'm going to guess that sophisticated filters dealt effectively with such things back then, and even more sophisticated filters would deal with your random encrypted bits too.
- jack1243star 6y agoCurious anecdote, some underground Japanese P2P networks have files with contents filled with references to Tiananmen, Tibet and the Uyghurs etc. probably to attract attention from CCP to deter Chinese users from downloading them.