If I were a terrorist mastermind (part 1): Secret messages
Some folks think that terrorists use 1000-bit key crypto schemes and secret comm satellites to send their operational instructions and "go" codes. Alas, such methods are obvious and few. One is just waving one's hands and saying "Come and get me, coppers!" if one is that stupid.
Others think Osama's clothes are arranged to send messages, or the cadence in his voice. Childish, easily broken, noisy, and besides dead men can't send messages.
No, what you do is send spam. Spam is ideal.
- Your people don't have to do anything special, spam just happens every time they turn their computer on. Even an idiot can get spam. No policeman is going to say "You got spam; terrorists get spam; you must be a terrorist!" At least not twice.
- You don't even have to hide your spam -- there's so much of it, it's like tracking all the individual flushes in Manhattan 24/7, times a billion or so. Although sending from .pk or .af is chancy and .obl and .ter should be avoided.
- Each emissary is given a random three word group, something like "prune Ottawa xylophone" which he puts into his email program's inbox filter. Getting the idea yet?
- You send out millions of emails promising the infidels whores and the manhood to use them, each with 1000 random English words (but, d'oh, not the special ones).
- When they get a special one, the rest of the junk text is code which their OBL secret decoder ring can easily solve. The neat part? Even if the code is known and not replaced, and the Crusaders can decode all the incoming spam mail, we can place any number of decoys in the stream, addressed to nobody, and they'll even make "sense" out of some of the purely random ones, there's so many.
These Americans are such fools: If they really want to fight the war on terrorism they have to stamp out spam.
Posted by Kevin Murphy at July 25, 2007 11:15 PM
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