On the medium being the message
Jim McCoy
mccoy at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Tue Jul 6 18:20:03 PDT 1993
> [...] This set off a whole train of thought on
> message concealibility, like hiding messages in, say, the order of headers
> in a posting, or the "Reply-To:" header, or even the words in subsequent
> postings to a newsgroup. Who would ever think to look at, say, the third
> word in every posting Tim makes to alt.whatever newsgroup? Or in the "Date:"
> field, or in the "Message-ID:" field, or ... or ... or ...
Not much bandwidth in that medium there...
Things like gif/jpeg images and sound files have a ton of semi-random bits
in them that you can fool around with without anyone noticing much, but
plain text in news headers and postings just doesn;t leave one with much
room for putting in a message. At least not without being blanently
obvious...
jim
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