Re: http://www.echelon.wiretapped.net signatures

From: Alex Future Bokov (alexboko@umich.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 07 2000 - 20:20:28 MDT


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On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, zeb haradon wrote:

> Alex Future Bokov (and many others) wrote something like:
> >
> >Malcolm X Vince Foster militia
> >Why are the above words in my signature? Check out:
> >http://www.echelon.wiretapped.net
> >
>
> If I worked for the FBI, I wouldn't have any trouble finding a way writing a
> program to "un-jam" the jamming of surveillance technologies that is being
> promoted by the given URL. I'd just have it ignore all e-mails/postings
> which have http://www.echelon.wiretapped.net in the body. More likely, I'd
> have it place them as a much lower priority, so that having the URL in your
> e-mail isn't a foolproof way to avoid it being read.
> But regardless, I recommend removing the URL and just having the keywords
> present.

Ah, but perhaps this is meta-jamming. The sig passes along the jamming meme to
other people, at the expense of its own individual efficacy. What I should
really do is debug that Echelon-jamming Perl script I sent out earlier and
put a link to that into my sig.

Btw, sometimes I forget to cut the sig out in my professional correspondence,
and I wouldn't want some faculty member or IT manager who never met me to
assume I'm some kind of a violent paranoid terrorist. So the Echelon URL
is there to kind of cover my butt. :-)

- --

NASA FBI ONI
Why are the above words in my signature? Check out:
http://www.echelon.wiretapped.net

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