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bogging down intrusive spying techniques via the internet

lauren phelps | 24.03.2003 14:48

How to use the internet in order to bog down and disrupt intrusive spying being lodged against citizens throughout the world

As you may be aware there is a piece of software called Carnivore that detects certain key phrases on the internet in order to flag people as potential terrorists. In operation Feed the Beast I would call on people to create fake e mail addresses from internet cafes, College Campuses, and Libraries. Then Fill the emails with all the words that would trigger the Carnivore system. For instance one could write something like. Anarchist Bomb terrorist Usama Bush burn Kill antiwar. Thus creating a system in which the carnivore system would either A)be bogged down and slow the governments ability to spy on private citizens or B) Create so many flags and so many leads that it would delegitimize the credability of the software. Another Idea would be to utilize spam emails filled with these words that are sent as forwards and spams to millions of people.
Lets make this meat eater burst

lauren phelps

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Unlikely to work

24.03.2003 15:18

While the principle of swamping such an objectionable system to the extent that it is useless is an appealing one, a simple approach like that described is unlikely to be effective. If we credit the designers of this system with even a modest amount of intelligence, we can assume that it will *also* test whether a message looks like a genuine piece of correspondence, as opposed to a deliberate trigger like that described. So if you want to clog the system up, you probably want to be scattering references to suspicious-sounding (but non-incriminating) stuff inside ordinary-looking emails instead of filling messages with nothing else.

Zak


It could work

24.03.2003 15:46

It could well work.
But it has to be sustained - the action, and
done on a massive scale.

lets do it together

lets give it a try


anarchist, anarchist, anarchist

24.03.2003 16:13

Im not scared, we'll all be labled terrorists eventually !!!

might as well get it over and done with...

your mobile phones a bigger intrusion

J

anarchist


Unlikely to Work (2)

24.03.2003 17:24

I agree with Zak that the system could easily filter out any such generated messages.

Howvere, if people were to just tag on some trigger words to all the emails they sent to friends etc it would be far more difficult to detect.

Chris


mike

25.03.2003 02:04

count me out guys, im a british arab so will probably be rounded up tonight if i did that...my race have been relegated to the sub-human category by the US/Britain and writing an email like that would be all they need to send me to guantanamo.

dony


Lauren: they are terrified of this tactic

25.03.2003 12:23

They are terrified of us using their tactic. The British and teh Americans are SHIT at human intelligence in the Arab world (they depend on the Israelis for that), and lean very heavily on communications and signals monitoring. They have tons of big computers but what they dont have is an army of analysts big enough to sort out the wheat from the chaff. Sending messages with lots of random words and numbers, so that it looks like a code, will drive them crazy: they are obliged to analyse each one individually.

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