[575] in Cypherpunks
Re: Steganography and Steganalysis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue May 25 17:28:54 1993
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 May 1993 14:56:48 EDT."
Reply-To: pmetzger@lehman.com
Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 17:15:09 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
andrew m. boardman says:
> Someone is probably doing steganography in netnews and/or mailing
> lists right now! (Besides cypherpunks, I mean.) How would we find them?
>
> Food for thought: that, at least as of recently, the NSA bought weekly
> dumps of all usenet articles on tape. I highly doubt they were for
> their reading pleasure...
Many organizations buy complete dumps of usenet -- its a way of
getting a newsfeed if your organization is too paranoid to let you get
a network connection. I don't know if the NSA was such an
organization, but it would not suprise me.
Perry
