Why "carnivore"...?

[Matt Amos]

imho, there will never be a way to have full access to what criminals say.
if they are determined about it then there will always be ways
(one-time-pads, face-to-face meetings in remote places, etc...) of hiding
their communications.

afaik, most criminals do not use the internet for important messages
anyway? is it possible to crack ISDN? even if (as most ppl dont) you take
the keys out with you? 

what about sending stacks of punched-cards or paper tape in the post? is
anyone really going to bother, especially if you stamp it "to dr. boring,
here are those original PDP-10 srcs you wanted"?

revisiting a previous topic: if you use DH key exchange and dont keep the
results of the message nor the session key, what can RIPA demand from you?
might this not be a good thing to have over irda on PDAs/laptops?

on an unreal note: what if you have two mail accounts on computers you
control and implement a TCP-over-SPAM connection. spammimic.org (iirc?)
has a recoverable way of turning ascii into spam and vice-versa. so if you
tunnel IP over uu or ascii-armour over spammimic and then back at the
other end it should work? granted, it would take days as this is a v. low
bitrate method, but might not be easily detectable? esp. if you used
something other than spam, say something about family or something (after
all, how often do you see people exchanging spam?) the idea being to make
it look as innocent as possible?

pls forgive me if this has been talked about already,

matt