Re: User interface for crippled crypto: echelon animation

[mgraffam@idsi.net]

On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Anonymous wrote:

> ..hmm, a java applet to animate ECHELON when the browser connects
> using craptography.. Image: a satellite picking up bits, or a sniffer
> on a link, and a computer (blinking lights, spinning tape reels, of
> course), with a cloak and dagger figure (or Boris and Natasha, or
> Sandy B & Madeline?) in front of a Yank flag...

You know, metaphors like this would probably be rather effective in
getting the point across to the average user -- whether they actually
heed the warning is another matter.

As Bruce Schneier said at Beyond HOPE a few years ago "the user is going
to take dancing pigs over security every time." 

FWIW though, how about the Black Hat spy from "Spy vs. Spy"

Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@idsi.net)
Yes, I recognize the irony -- the system I oppose affords me the luxery of
biting the hand that feeds; thats exactly why privileged fucks like me
should feel obliged to whine and kick and scream..
			- Propagandhi -- "Resisting Tyrannical Government"