The idea is that, once or twice a day, everyone who signed up gets about 30-40kb of totally random data emailed to them, from a randomly selected other member, under the subject line of ‘Random Data Email Exchange [some unrelated random number]‘.

As well-encrypted data is indistinguishable, statistically, from random, it should give the decoders a field day.

(It is worth noting that, when XORed, any random data can be made to say anything, given a suitably constructed key.)

There are other problems, not the least being centralization (who keeps the list of who has signed up?) spamming (what if someone who gets the list sends everyone Viagra email? Or marks everyone on the list as a suspect and puts them on the no-fly list) infiltration (what if the random numbers aren’t actually random) and finally…

In some jurisdictions it is unlawful to claim that you do not have the decryption key to encrypted data. You can be (and some have been) imprisoned until you fess up the key.

But totally random data (that the government thinks is encrypted data) *has* no key (that you know of). So there’s nothing you can tell them (that they’ll believe) and you stay in jail roughly forever.

Even torture isn’t going to help, as you try to tell them key after key and none of them work.

Ah well. Nobody said civil disobedience was fun.

Jon

Besides, those that do the surveillance don’t much care what name I use. They know more about me than I do.

But to answer your question, my screen name is part of my last name and happens to be the nickname that every one knows me by, both on the internet and in “real” life.

I’ve posted my “real” name here in the past. I’m sorry you missed it.

His base fell for it and he got elected. Watch what they fall for this go-round.
Yours,
Issodhos

Anybody out there got a search program that will run continuously in the background?