Comments on: I Thought We Solved This NSA Thing Long Ago

By: Laie

Laie — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:19:18 +0000

@Eric
Actually, I don’t think this noise will be mistaken for a signal. I’m not sure wether it even qualifies as noise.
A single block of keywords, like “bomb gun sword ambush”, is easily filtered. If the keywords were distributed over bomb the entire body of the gun message it might be more effective, but would ambush be disruptive even for the intended audience. Sword.

By: Eric Lund

Eric Lund — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:38:24 +0000

This only works if enough people do it to drive the signal to noise ratio close to 1. If only a few people do it, then NSA simply spends more CPU cycles looking at their e-mail–which is no big deal for them.

By: Laie

Laie — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:38:30 +0000

“I’m surprised that this earlier implemented solution has not been mentioned” — that’s because this is no solution. At best, it’s showing them the finger. I presume they don’t care.

Furthermore, the whole scheme rests upon the assumption that The Observers have limited resources. This might have been true ten years ago, but these days, they have -for all practical purposes- unlimited means.

By: bobh

bobh — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:49:54 +0000

So let me get this straight. You put these terms into your email to deliberately get NSA to read your email (that they would not have done without the terms automatically inserted). And this will overload NSA so terrorists can avoid detection and bring down a plane over the Atlantic. Very clever. Fortunately, NSA will figure this out and develop an algorithm to defeat it.

By: LeonardoV59

LeonardoV59 — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:33:09 +0000

I don’t want to make the suggestion that you are a bunch of idiots is just that your idiotic suggestions are!
I will only imagine that the NSA are there for a particular reason, the next time another sep 11 happens you will thank your smart ways to their success.