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Re: Just Carnivore (was: Yahoogroups and Carnivore)

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Tue Sep 18 02:30:42 2001 
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:36:53 PDT, Roeland Meyer said:
> So, Bruce Schneier, when posing that problem, must have had his imagination
> disengaged. There is more than adequate cover story for passing huge JPGs
> around.

No, he actually had his brain engaged.  His point was that if you're trying
to use steganography to move data around under the nose of a government that's
actively trying to catch you at something, you can't just start sending
files around, because that would set off traffic pattern analysis warnings.

http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-9810.html#steganography  for the whole story.

/Valdis