Oops! (Was: Re: Happy Echeclon Day!)

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Um, I don't know what happened to that last post! Anyway, this is what it was
meant to look like. Sorry.

-R.

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Chuck wrote:
> Check out my sig
>
> [snip]

Our colleagues in the Abu Nidal Organization have provided us with the
botulinum and the Heckler & Koch MP-909s are on their way from the Sendero
Luminoso. We have explosive devices planted in strategic locations in twelve
major U.S. urban centers of population and are ready to strike....

...Seriously, though, I'm going to have to side with the critics of JED. It's
naive to think that we could overwhelm their system, because if it exists to
the degree it's generally believed to, well, their capacity for scanning
severely overwhelms ours for jamming, no matter how many JED manages to involve
around the world.

We'd overwhelm the system if more people wrote messages like this:
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: PGPfreeware 6.0 for non-commercial use
MessageID: 4ip9dARaDGuierN5YSu4znFObNU8W
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=DAsg
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

Whatever that was, the encryption - at least for a moment - is guaranteed to
give spooks a headache. And that's if it even is a message. You'll never know,
because I'm not going to tell you. One of the advantages of PGP is that dummy
messages are incredibly difficult to spot.

On the other hand, we couldn't have asked for better publicity with JED.
Because it's such a simple idea - to use an old phrase, bullshit baffles brains
- Joe Netizen can lend a hand. If the effort involved some kind of technical
trickery, it would be an order of magnitude less publicised by now. Now that a
significant number of people have become aware of Echelon - and us - we need to
capitalise upon the free publicity we've received. Robert's initial alert for
JED was a perfect meme, and has embedded itself well into the internet
community, taking us with it. We're now 'the organisers of Jam Echelon Day',
and we have to use that position of 'authority' - the semi-mysterious
Hactivists - to build some kind of  status in the minds of the public. If we
seem authoritative enough, we might be able to do a follow-up event and some
point to try and get people using encryption. But that will probably take some
planning.

That's my 2c....

-R.

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