[ale] Re: If you're on Bellsouth DSL, I recommend changing providers.

[Pete Hardie]

Fletch wrote:
>>>>>>"Pete" == Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at sciatl.com> writes:
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> [...]
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>     Pete> Minor correction - use GPG for everything, that way they
>     Pete> can't tell if any particular message is important.
> 
> 
> True, but you're still vulnerable to traffic analysis (c.f. mentions
> of "increased chatter").  The truly paranoid would use something like
> mixmaster and/or a constant flow of messages of the same length.
> 
> 
> Then again the real threats already know this and are using crypto and
> stego, so claiming that port 25 blocking is because Ashcroft wants to
> get his hands on your sister's macadamia cookie recipie makes you
> sound like a first class member of the tin-foil brigade.

That's what they *want* you to think......


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