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Hi August,

On 2023-06-04 11:08:00, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> Probably everything is collected. And btw binkd doesn't use a very
 WvV>> good encryption algorithm. So if they wanted/needed to break it,
 WvV>> they probably could.

 AA> I thought binkd's encryption only extended to the
 AA> authentication part.  If the whole transfer, ie. the PKTs are
 AA> encrypted, that's interesting.

It can be, but not every node supports it...

 AA> I recall a movement that suggested that people simply FLOOD the
 AA> channels with messages that bore "suspect" text in the Subject
 AA> lines: super secret, terrorism, murder.. etc.  The idea being
 AA> that then they will have too much data to analyse.

I don't think that would work now. Data analyses and cpu power has come a long
way...


Bye, Wilfred.

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