ZDNet: RIP: Government claims no mass surveillance (fwd)

Adam Atkinson (ETL) adam.atkinson at etl.ericsson.se
Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:59:47 +0200


> I believe that (and don't forget to set the timer on the 
> bomb) there is a
> bit of lexical analysis to try and filter out random word lists and
> distinguish them from (Our brother Freedom Fighters 
> intending to blow up the targets) otherwise innocent emails.

clearly, including the incendiary words or phrases in signatures,
or headers such as "X-FBIbait:" would make them easily filterable,
but having occasional explosive terms in the body of messages
in an attempt to ignite an increase in the CPU time consumed
in the scanning system would have to to be worth it.

After all, whilst I'm sure my "why lottery number predictors
are conmen" web pages are of SOME use defending the ignorant
from conmen, my _main_ reason for writing the pages is the
thought that in some small way I am contributing to giving
at least one conman somewhere in the world a slightly worse
day once in a while. 

If I can annoy the FBI or HO in some small way ethnic cleansing
by including racial purity tempting words and phrases in my mails, and
capitalist running-dogs encouraging others to do so, then 
I will feel my life has been worthwhile in some way.

> OTOH, including triggers will at least allow them to 
> identify people who
> may be troublemakers in the New Regime ;+)

Perhaps. :-) But UK-crypto subscribers are probably already 
on "a little list".