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I still have vivid memories of, as a kid, stumbling upon this network of GeoCities pages about "Echelon" and how the US could read all of the worlds email and search for trigger words - and how absurd and tinfoil-hat-y it was made to sound by the rest of the internet.

Having this memory absolutely changed the way I've been viewing NSA related leaks in the past few years.

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I remember reading The Right to Read by Richard Stallman, published in 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM and thinking that it was too pessimistic. Society would never accept that kind of new business model.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

Thankfully you now have organisations like GoG and The Humble Bundle finally doing something for DRM-free media.

For years, I added this header to my outgoing mail:

> X-Echelon-header: Al-Qaeda bomb Bin Laden decrypt terror CIA Enfopol

We had a plan to send copies of our mail encrypted in an enigma cipher to a Mr. Liam Pukcab figuring that with the encryption and a foreign sounding recipient it would always be stored on a server somewhere.

I've been tempted to seed multi-GB torrents, comprising random data encrypted to long random passphrases, with intriguing names. Or maybe use LUKS-encrypted virtual disks.

Friendly of you to make it so easy to strip out.

Why? What's the upside?

If you value the needles, increase the haystack...

Adding meaningless noise

That's not really achieving much.

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