On 06/19/2013 03:40 PM, Griffin Boyce wrote: > Michael Azarkevich <michael.azarkev...@gmail.com > <mailto:michael.azarkev...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I find it hard to believe the list is authentic. It has words like > "Java", "Quiche" and "Redheads" for gods sake. Also, they misspelled > the name of the Israeli equivalent of the Navy SEALS (They wrote > "Shayet-13" instead of "Shayetet-13"). > > The NSA aren't stupid, they're running the biggest spying operation > in the world. I know size doesn't imply competency but I'm inclined > to believe they know what they're doing. > The list is, in all probability, fake. > > > Well, sure. A coworker mentioned that it strongly resembles the output > from the emacs "spook" command. ;-)
The older farts amongst us may remember the 90ies. During the "crypto wars" such fake lists were circulated before. Even then simple keyword catalogue searches were outdated, even then they were part of a much bigger surveillance programm. They had long started searching primarily for communications patterns by then. During the late 90ies some similar efforts to "jam the NSA" took place. Aside from jamming, you can't even troll them this way. What we did for fun on the civil lib and crypto lists was exchanging lists of really harsh swearing expressions in various languages. I would use words from the Turkish swearing catalogue as a regular e-mail footer, the Spanish speaking used the worst expressions in Viennese argot I could find, the Italians swore in Greek transcripts etc. There were Armenian and Italian catalogues as well. All swearing was openly addressed to the NSA. We knew they were on our lists, because we were such a small lot then, easy to oversee worldwide. Gruesse Erich > > ~Griffin > > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- http://moechel.com/kontakt.html PGP KEY 0xEA7DC174 fingerprint 02AA B2E7 C609 307D 34FE 4B5C ACC6 A796 EA7D C174 --... ...-- -.. . . .-. .. -.-. .... --- . ...-- . -- -... -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
