[42573] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Just Carnivore (was: Yahoogroups and Carnivore)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Sep 18 02:28:19 2001
Message-Id: <200109180627.f8I6Qqr04268@foo-bar-baz.cc.vt.edu>
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:36:53 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 02:26:52 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:36:53 PDT, Roeland Meyer said:
> So, Bruce Schneier, when posing that problem, must have had his imagination
> disengaged. There is more than adequate cover story for passing huge JPGs
> around.
No, he actually had his brain engaged. His point was that if you're trying
to use steganography to move data around under the nose of a government that's
actively trying to catch you at something, you can't just start sending
files around, because that would set off traffic pattern analysis warnings.
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-9810.html#steganography for the whole story.
/Valdis
