Re: [sudo-discuss] BAD IDEA Re: Opt out of PRISM

Hi Matt, Matthew Harbowy, on 2013-06-12 16:17, wrote: There is no silver bullet, so those recommendations won't be some magical privacy pixie dust you can just sprinkle and feel warm and fuzzy about, but at least encryption helps you secure the content of your communication (not the fact that communication occurred). One can imagine even the latter being obscured. I could automate the sending of randomly generated encrypted messages at a particular time of day (say at 16:17), but have that process be pre-empted by a real message, should I choose to send one (so not my randomly generated message gets sent out, but the one I want to actually send). One drawback, of course, is that if I queued up a message at half past four, it would be almost 24 hours before it got sent. (Though the upshot of a protocol like this would be that the intended recipient would know they'd only have to check their email once a day, if they're interested in receiving messages from me) Should more frequent communication be desired, you could switch to sending gobbledygook messages at a certain minute of every hour. Of course, the recipient has to "wade" through potentially more random messages with that, but that's the price you pay. Are you proposing an alternative, or should be just throw our hands up in resignation? best, -- _ / \ A* \^ - ,./ _.`\\ / \ / ,--.S \/ \ / `"~,_ \ \ __o ? _ \<,_ /:\ --(_)/-(_)----.../ | \ --------------.......J Paul Ivanov http://pirsquared.org