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On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 04:41:50PM +0100,
Cliff Sarginson formed electrons and emmitted this:
[*]Am I missing out on something here ?
[*]What is the X-Echelon header when it is at home ?
[*]Will my teenage son think his dad is a cool dude
[*]if I have one ?
[*]
Cliff,
Echelon is a program run by the NSA to monitor electronic communication
and seek out certain keywords within those communications to attempt to
detect terrorist and other undesireable activity. In light of the events
of 9/11/01 I would imagine that this effort has been stepped up quite
a bit.
IMHO, however, if we have heard about Echelon I would imagine that
Echelon is old hat at the NSA and they probably have something much more
sophisticated in its place.
Putting an X-Echelon header in your email with provocative words in it
supposedly causes the NSA computers to waste cycles processing them.
IMHO, again, I give that analysts at the NSA are probably smarter than
that as some of them are hackers at heart anyway and have figured out
the X-Echelon header game.
So, what I am saying is the whole idea of an X-Echelon header is a game
that was funny the first 99 times it was done and like many over told
jokes has gotten pretty lame. Don't waste time on it.
HTH
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Peter L. Berghold [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager Unix Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NYU Mt Sinai (212) 263-6932
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