Re: Echelon is just a grep away.. Congressman

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Anonymous wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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