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I've never believe the Craig's List messages or messages on /. are more than pranks.
"Trust but verify" ;) In the absence of verification, you've got a strong point. At least with shortwave we can look at historical precedence for a small percentage of the stations and say that they were acknowledged to be used for clandestine operations of various sorts - but there's still a lot out there that's unexplained about them.
Attracting attention to the messages would be undesirable if they were the real deal.
Yes and no. As long as the message itself remains uncrackable, it doesn't matter how many people are in posession of it as long as only the intended recipient can successfully decrypt it. Again, it may be useful to generate some false activity around it in order to obfuscate that recipient's identity.
Ok, here's my conspiracy theory of the day. How spam could be used like a numbers broadcast.
And you're dead right. There are any number of channels that could be exploited to move coded messages in plain sight; the question only remains as to the effectiveness of each one. Allow me to pose this question, though: what happens if your recipient's ISP or third-party software nails the spam on receipt, thus preventing the recipient from ever seeing it? Granted, you'd probably take this into account in the design process, but there're always considerations in establishing secure comms channels. - skroo. ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations
