From: Corporate Spy <cs@dev.null>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 06:11:55 +0800
To: T.G.Griffiths@exeter.ac.uk
Subject: Use crypto, face the Stockholders / Re: Use crypto, face a death squad
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Tim Griffiths wrote:
> In message <87761312106967@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz> Peter wrote:
> > There have been various rumours and comments over the past few years that
> > the
> > use of crypto in certain countries (Syria, Iraq, possibly China) is very
> > dangerous for the end user, but very little actual evidence to substantiate
> > this.
> > [snip, with reference to Iraq]
> >  He can't remember the exact details any more, but the implication was
> > that any encrypted messages sent to them would result in them quietly
> > dissapearing.
> 
> So a possible consequence of someone from Iraq being obnoxious on a
> mailing list, to someone in the know, could be several PGP-encrypted
> mails dumped in their inbox... A little extreme, for us gentles, but the
> threat should be effective.

 If email not encrypted to a Korrect Kompany Key is filtered 'from'
the recipient's mbox, I imagine it would also be filtered 'to' another
mbox, for signs of suspicious activity.
 e.g. - an encrypted message to the CEO of the company from 
  "Corporate_Spy@your_competitor.com" with a subject heading such as,
  "Information received--money deposited to your account."

  Of course, if the message enclosed was a bunch of garbage, encrypted
to the CEO's private key, and then slightly corrupted, then that would
make it all the more suspicious, interesting, wouldn't it?

> Of course, spamming every Iraqui email address you could find with encoded
> mail could cause a _lot_ of trouble.

  Not that you're a troublemaker...

C-Spy