Echelon is just a grep away.. Congressman

[Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>]

At 09:40 AM 2/14/99 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>   at 04:29 AM, Mixmaster <mixmaster@remail.obscura.com> said:

>>They need to see a movie with a bored Sysop
>>grepping through email at 3 in the morning.  
>>This might build some intuition.  
>

>Well if one has access to procmail on their shell account (you do have a
>shell account?) there is a simple solution to sysop snooping.
>
>The following line will PGP encrypt all messages before they are put into
>your mailbox:
>
>:0 fbw
>* RECIPIENT ?? [E-Mail Address Here]
>| pgpe -fat -r [PGP KeyID] +force +batchmode

WGIII, I'll assume you read my message too fast.  (But thanks for
the tech advice...)

The point is to inform the *clueless sheeple* about the *existing threats*,
e.g., Calea, maybe so they clue in to their past complacency.  It is not to
teach them
about crypto-countermeasures to the Eye; it is to point it out in the first
place.