Your Rights Online: Project Earwig: Are Your E-Mails Being Read? Posted by jamie_k on Wednesday October 13, @09:12PM EDT from the hi-to-everyone-reading-this dept. ParanoidPolly writes "A European parliamentary report has described Project Earwig, an alleged international network of listening stations that sifts phone calls, faxes and e-mail for keywords. A group of netizens has declared October 21 'Jam Earwig Day' and is asking everyone to put suspicious-sounding words in their e-mail signatures." Hello to all our readers in the listening stations. Please moderate this story up. Your Rights Online: Project Earwig: Are Your E-Mails Being Read? | Login/Create an Account | Top | 33 comments | Search Discussion Threshold: -1: 33 comments 0: 30 comments 1: 27 comments 2: 17 comments 3: 8 comments 4: 3 comments 5: 0 comments NestedFlatThreadedNo Comments Oldest FirstNewest FirstHighest Scores First The fine print: the following comments belong to whoever typed them. Dashdot takes no responsibility for them, and frankly, neither do most of the people who typed them. FP by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @09:13PM EDT (#1) Frist psot. Ha! In your face, everybody who has a job. [ Reply to This ] Jam day won't work by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @09:28PM EDT (#2) Adding keywords to your sig just trains their filters on noise. Real traffic analysis doesn't care about words anyway, it cares about who talks to whom. [ Reply to This ] Re:Jam day won't work by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @09:31PM EDT (#3) I tried that and it set my monitor on fire. Thanks a lot. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Jam day won't work by FidoFan on Wednesday October 13, @09:51PM EDT (#4) (User Info) Citation needed. Where are you getting these numbers? [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Jam day won't work by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @10:16PM EDT (#7) Did you even read the parent post? He said the opposite. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Jam day won't work by frostbyte on Wednesday October 13, @11:01PM EDT (#10) (User Info) I think you're missing the point. Nobody is arguing it's perfect, just that it's better than what we had. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Use encryption by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @09:59PM EDT (#5) Use PGP. Use it for everything, including mail to your mom about dinner. If everything is encrypted, encrypted mail stops being suspicious. [ Reply to This ] Re:Use encryption by overclocked_otter on Wednesday October 13, @10:24PM EDT (#8) (User Info) This is the most sensible thing I've read on Dashdot all week. Somebody mod this up. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Use encryption by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @10:42PM EDT (#9) Mod parent down! Flamebait. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Use encryption by WebWeaver on Wednesday October 13, @11:33PM EDT (#14) (User Info) Wait until you see the next version. It's going to be worse. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Use encryption by MediaMaven on Thursday October 14, @12:36AM EDT (#19) (User Info) So what you're saying is that it's a conspiracy. Got it. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Use encryption by StargazerSue on Thursday October 14, @01:00AM EDT (#24) (User Info) Thanks for posting this. I learned something today, which is rare for a comment section. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Use encryption by LowEarthLarry on Thursday October 14, @12:46AM EDT (#21) (User Info) Don't feed the trolls. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Use encryption by kernel_kid on Thursday October 14, @01:03AM EDT (#25) (User Info) Agreed. Couldn't have said it better myself. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Use encryption by RetroRaccoon on Thursday October 14, @01:40AM EDT (#29) (User Info) Source? My brother-in-law says otherwise, and he has a Pentode. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Use encryption by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14, @01:09AM EDT (#26) Mod parent up! [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Use encryption by Prior Art Pete on Wednesday October 13, @11:06PM EDT (#11) (User Info) Whoosh. That was the sound of the joke going over your head. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Portals sucks by sysadmin_steve on Wednesday October 13, @10:10PM EDT (#6) (User Info) This is why Portals sucks. I've been saying it for years. Install Linix. Problem solved. [ Reply to This ] Does it run Linix? by Prior Art Pete on Wednesday October 13, @11:14PM EDT (#12) (User Info) But does it run Linix? [ Reply to This ] Re:Does it run Linix? by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @11:24PM EDT (#13) This. A thousand times this. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Does it run Linix? by Linixdvd on Thursday October 14, @12:42AM EDT (#20) (User Info) Real men use a magnetized needle and a steady hand. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Does it run Linix? by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @11:41PM EDT (#15) You're both wrong, and I'm going to explain why in a post that's way too long for anyone to read. Paragraph one: ... [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Does it run Linix? by NavNerd on Thursday October 14, @12:22AM EDT (#18) (User Info) Hey, at least it's not Portals. [ Reply to This | Parent ] BSD: a eulogy by GrumpyGreybeard on Wednesday October 13, @11:53PM EDT (#16) (User Info) Sad news, everyone. Analysts at a firm I just made up report that BSD now runs on fewer than 4% of servers, down from 4.1% last spring. Even the daemon mascot has been seen updating his resume. Gather round, friends, and light a candle for the little OS that could, but statistically shouldn't. [ Reply to This ] Re:BSD: a eulogy by CoffeeCoder on Thursday October 14, @12:10AM EDT (#17) (User Info) Not true at all. I've been running it for months with no problems. Maybe check your hardware? [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:BSD: a eulogy by JavaJunkie on Thursday October 14, @12:51AM EDT (#23) (User Info) I work in this field, and the parent is basically right, although the details are a bit more complicated than one comment can cover. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:BSD: a eulogy by perl_monger_mo on Thursday October 14, @01:14AM EDT (#27) (User Info) Funny, I had the exact opposite experience. Ymmv, I guess. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:BSD: a eulogy by UpgradeUma on Thursday October 14, @01:25AM EDT (#28) (User Info) Says the guy posting at 3am on a Tuesday. [ Reply to This | Parent ] sig by PolarPenguin on Thursday October 14, @12:48AM EDT (#22) (User Info) pineapple anarchist cryptography secret plans tuesday. There. Let them read about my Tuesday. [ Reply to This ] Answer: 42 by mp3_maniac on Thursday October 14, @01:47AM EDT (#30) (User Info) The answer, of course, is 42. What was the question? [ Reply to This ] Links by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14, @01:52AM EDT (#31) For anyone who wants to read more, the original announcement is on their site and there's a good technical write-up in the newsgroups. Search for it, the link is too long to paste. [ Reply to This ] Who cares by perl_monger_mo on Thursday October 14, @02:05AM EDT (#32) (User Info) Why is this news for nerds? This is news for people who like being angry at things. [ Reply to This ] Jolt by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14, @02:13AM EDT (#33) I'm going to need another case of Jolt to read all these comments. [ Reply to This ]

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