RE: Did the Echelon Intercept Filters choke on all those key word s?

[Stiens Eric <9946144@student.ul.ie>]

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> 
> Last month, there was a Campaign launched to clog Echelon 
> text Intercept Filters by appending a long list of words 
> which were believed to be intercepted by Echelon. I recall 
> seeing an article about it and there was mention of this 
> hactivism mail list.
> 
> Does anyone know how successful those efforts were?

depends on how you define success....brought the issue some publicity...got
some more people thinking...and brought some new people to this list....

> Did the Echelon SPY system have any difficulties, at least 
> that we may know about?

quite doubtful on that one....it was never intended as a physical 'Jam
Echelon' day though, at least not in my book......i'm sure those that be had
more than enough know how not to let our little game screw anything up.....

the revolution will be improvised!
eric


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