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Frankly, their solution was good enough and could have escaped detection indefinitely, if only they had stuck through with the discipline required. It was an em
by zeteo 14y ago
Frankly, their solution was good enough and could have escaped detection indefinitely, if only they had stuck through with the discipline required. It was an emotional, not a technical failure that exposed the whole thing.
- tantalor 14y agoIronically, it was the same technique pioneered by "terrorists", "An even more secure method of communication is that which involves using one-time anonymous public email accounts; two terrorists who wish to communicate to open 30 anonymous email accounts whose usernames and passwords are known by each side. To communicate, one terrorist creates a web-based email and instead of sending it, saves it as a draft online. The “recipient” then logs onto this account, reads this message and deletes. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_and_terrorism#Communication_.26_Networking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_and_terrorism#Communic...
- cmccabe 14y agoYeah, it's kind of funny that the article concludes at the end that despite all the things that they "could have used instead of gmail" it wouldn't have mattered. So... basically the article was a waste of time, proposing a technical solution for a social problem.