From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 02:35:49 +0800
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: Traffic Analysis and Cover Traffic
In-Reply-To: <v03102803b05829bdf10b@[207.167.93.63]>
Message-ID: <199710011820.OAA21380@users.invweb.net>
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In <v03102803b05829bdf10b@[207.167.93.63]>, on 10/01/97 
   at 09, Tim May <tcmay@got.net> said:

>At 2:03 AM -0700 10/1/97, Robert A. Costner wrote:

>>Let me get this straight.  You are suggesting that anyone who wishes to be
>>anonymous should send a continuous 24 hour stream of low bandwidth data to
>>a central point in an effort to help keep anyone from knowing that they
>>wish to be anonymous.

>He was describing how a constant-traffic pipe defeats "sudden burst of
>activity" types of traffic analysis. (As, for example, when nightime
>activity in the White House is signalled by deliveries of lots of
>pizzas.)

In Ian Slater's book Showdown such "burst activity" was put to use. In
order to find where the rebel headquarters was located rummors were spread
that the rebel leader was dead. Soon afterwards there was an increase in
radio trafic from the headquarters in an attempt to kill the rummors
thereby giving away their location as the "sudden burst of activity" stood
out like a sore thumb over the normal radio traffic.

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