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   August Abolins to Wilfred van Velzen   
   Cops hate encryption but the NSA loves i   
   03 Jun 23 21:51:00   
   
   MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 09155d96   
   REPLY: 2:280/464 647b5583   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.57 (Win32)   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   TZUTC: -0400   
   Hello Wilfred!   
      
    AA>> Oh yeah.. netmail could work that way exclusively. Good   
    AA>> point. That could be reasonably invisible to the NSA/spy.   
    AA>>  But the use of the binkp can still be deteted, no?   
      
    WvV> Yes. With or without pgp/gpg content.   
      
   Hmmm..  Too bad networked (via FTN) BBSes don't stress that     
   opaqueness as pretty-good-isolation from internet collection     
   then.   
      
      
    AA>> And if that's the case, they can start focusing their   
    AA>> observations on systems that use it and probe deeper.   
      
    WvV> Why would they want to do that? And if they would, they   
    WvV> would have already started doing so decades ago...   
      
   Well.. I thought that if it becomes known that BBSes are the     
   transport mechanism for secret/suspect messages, then the spys     
   could investigate the BBS and owners and choose to knock on     
   their doors some day?   
      
      
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     ../|ug   
      
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