Awshucks! Using Project Aardvark to confuse the chicoms was more
interesting!
Wilton Strickland via Mercedes wrote on 8/23/19 5:34 PM:
After using new email system for coupla months, was not able to open
attachments. 'Thought I had found the "problem" and changed settings
to correct it. Sending the "aardvark" attachment was an easy way to
check it. It works. Nothing nefarious. No nuke codes passed.
W
-----------------------------------------From: "Curt Raymond via
Mercedes"
To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
Cc: "Curt Raymond"
Sent: Thursday August 22 2019 8:42:25PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] test
When I was in college I worked for the IT group for one year. This was
one of the real old school IT groups where you had to kiss the ring
of
the boss etc.At the end of the school year they laid off my manager
which was a shame, the guy was great. The rest of us refused to kiss
the ring and were not re-hired the next year. Unfortunately for them
we had already penetrated the network and could do what we wanted.
We knew they were monitoring our email so we instituted strict
security protocols that included encrypting everything with PGP
(Pretty Good Privacy). The encryption scheme would take 1 line of
text
and turn it into a paragraph or a paragraph into a page etc. So the
amount of traffic stayed the same but the volume of each message
jumped dramatically.
It wasn't long before the 5 ringleaders (of which I was the least
technical but most scheming) were hauled in to account for ourselves.
They rolled out "We know you're up to something, we don't know what
but you better tell us or else!" We kept our mouths shut knowing
there
wasn't anything they could do to us, even if they could decrypt our
messages it was all mundane stuff like "What time is dinner?" any
actual scheming we did in person, off campus.
When I graduated the president of the college shook my hand for a
second longer than everybody else "I'm not sad to see you go." We
laughed, it was great.
-Curt
On Thursday, August 22, 2019, 3:02:28 PM EDT, OK Don via Mercedes
wrote:
No, he is fully aware that they are, and is just giving them
something to
ponder ...
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 1:52 PM Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> What's the hidden meaning, Wilton? Are you afraid your
conversations are
> being monitored in Beijing?
>
--
OK Don
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time
to
pause and reflect." Mark Twain
"There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The
few who
learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric
fence
for themselves."
WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers*
2013 F150, 18 mpg
2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg
1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph!
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