On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:01:00AM -0500, Peter L. Berghold wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > Ok thanks, I wasn't planning to, my message was supposed to be faintly humourous, but I did not know what it was about. So now I do ..
-- Regards Cliff
