[pp.int.general] FRA Warning

[Will Pomes]

This is similar in theory to a dead drop, where in you hide the
message in a conspicuous, public place, in a way that will make it
meaningless to someone who doesn't know its there.

The only way to do this better would be to encrypt messages as
animated .gif's. Very difficult to read something that isn't a
straight text to text encryption.

This is just the opinion of a (VERY casual) cryptology/security enthusiast.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Valentin Villenave
<v.villenave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/12/31 Per von Zweigbergk <per.von.zweigbergk at piratpartiet.se>:
>> On January 1, 2009, the FRA-law (Lex Orwell) comes into effect in Sweden.
>> This is the law that empowers the Swedish National Defense Radio
>> Establishment (Försvarets Radio-anstalt / FRA) to intercept any and all
>> international communications based on "advanced search terms".
>
> Don't you believe they've been waiting for the law to pass before
> doing this? IMO they're already listening :-)
>
> 2008/12/31 Per von Zweigbergk <per.von.zweigbergk at piratpartiet.se>:
>
>> Really, encryption like GnuPG isn't really relevant here. What FRA is most
>> interested in, is to build "sociograms" -- diagrams detailing who is
>> communicating with whom. When using a system like GnuPG, the sender and
>> receiver of the e-mail (and even the subject line) is visible. GnuPG does
>> absolutely nothing for the possible lurkers on this e-mail list who wish to
>> stay out of the Pirate Party's sociogram.
>
> One great workaround (quite funny also):
> http://spammimic.com/explain.shtml
>
> Cheers,
> Valentin
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