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I find all of these attempts to "troll" or "distract" the NSA quite naive. If they truly have direct access to the backbone cables of the internet, then they mu
by xnyhps 13y ago
I find all of these attempts to "troll" or "distract" the NSA quite naive. If they truly have direct access to the backbone cables of the internet, then they must be pretty good at filtering signal from noise. Just imagine the size of email/IM traffic compared to bittorrent.
If they can extract everyone's email messages from fiber-optic cables in real-time, then they surely are smart enough to create a filter that ignores just a list of words without any actual structure, like "Croatian nuclear FBI colonel plutonium Ortega Waco, Texas Panama CIA DES jihad fissionable quiche terrorist World Trade Center".
- popee 13y agoWhat if you could generates messages with real meaning but are in fact spam? That way lot of people could maybe make a difference. Btw not sure how/where they sniff traffic, but creating alter egos that are consistent -> also interesting concept. You goto jail because of multiple virtual personality disorder :-) Or planting bots that are not just talking gibberish? Or creating predefined scenario and play it over time? Just to fuck them up?
- xnyhps 13y agoHow would that help? If the NSA tracks a billion accouns, how is even a million fake ones going to make a difference? I'm pretty sure "spam" is not a new concept to them. If they want to look up any real person, they'll still be able to find all their email/IM accounts. If you include a way for the recipient of an email to tell "fake" messages from real ones, then the NSA will be able to tell as well.
- rayiner 13y agoDoes it take cleverness to extract everyone's email messages in real time? SMTP could not have been designed to be any more "hey world, here's all my e-mail!" than it was.