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There were a few days back in the 90s where all the tech sites would run a campaign where everybody was supposed to send emails full of red flag words: "bomb" a
by ertian 3y ago
There were a few days back in the 90s where all the tech sites would run a campaign where everybody was supposed to send emails full of red flag words: "bomb" and "assassinate" and "terrorism" and what have you. It was specifically to mess with NSA surveillance operations.
- neilv 3y agoForever, there was a file included in stock Emacs, `spook.el`, which could be hooked up to automatically add random strings of "interesting" keywords to each of your email or Usenet messages (in signatures, or in headers like `X-Spook`). https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mail-Amusements.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ma... Looks like copyright date of 1988: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/play/spook.el https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/play/... https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/spook.lines https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/spook.... Try `M-x spook RET` in an Emacs buffer.