From: Alastair McKinstry <amck@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 94 04:33:48 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Tommy Tag Lines
Message-ID: <9408161233.aa28796@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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> > The NSA is more than capable enough to ignore NSA fodder, I would think. 
> > If you want to write something that'll get looked at by a human, you'll
> > have to write the kind of thing that's likely to make you the target of an
> > investigation: "Tim, the supplier screwed up--the .5 Kg Pu shipment ain't

> On the "Tommy the Tourist" tag lines. To use a netticism, "<shrug>."
> 
> The modern Net and the modern NSA will not be fooled for any
> significant amount of time by such naughty words. In fact, I'm sure
> they now have a set of filters for ignoring such blatant bait.
>

> -- 
> ..........................................................................
> Timothy C. May         | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,  
> tcmay@netcom.com       | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero

Yes, presumably the NSA (etc) has filters to deal with such spook lines,
however it must be irritating to have to include filters, and lose the
efficiency of plain string searches. A large enough number of messages
with the words NSA Plutonium AK-47 bomb interspersed means having to 
include filters, human and automated. 

As long as people come up with new ways to frustrate their filters, 
rather than just append a fixed set of words to the final lines of 
their message, then they have to waste (comparatively) valuable
programmers and CPU time keeping their scanners up to date.

Only irritating, true, but I reserve the right to irritate such
buggers :-)

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