From: Brian D Williams <talon57@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 94 08:23:42 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: STEALTH OCEAN
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Matt Thomlinson asks:

>I can see how a stealth-PGP would allow you to hide messages on
>your disk in "wiped" filespace -- it'd look like garbage (maybe --
>see Aside), if anyone took a look. What does this buy you, though,
>if you've got a telltale TSR hanging around?


 Why not "Parasitize" your program on to Command.com like many
viruses do? The "Stealth" viruses also employ code that will not
reveal the change in size to either MEM or CHKDSK, such code can
also restore the timestamp.


Brian Williams
Extropian
Cypherpatriot

"Cryptocosmology: Sufficently advanced comunication is
                  indistinguishable from noise." --Steve Witham
 
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