Could FReepmail be used by terrorist

eastforker ^ | 1/18/04 | Eastforker

[eastforker]

This is a question for those that know. Do the security agencies have a way to monitor private replys on this and other forums on the internet? If not, we may have a security breach that has not been addressed.

[Jim Robinson]

Well, I've never had anyone actually come to my door. Now, there's this black van that parks across the street a lot. Has all black windows and a whole bunch of antennas and micro dish looking stuff. Nah... probably nothing to worry about.

[Deb]

You forgot the nuts.

[hellinahandcart]

If you are trying to get the freepmail function taken away from us, I'm going to *hurt* you...

[risk]

I forgot to mention that's lizard flesh!

[JoeSixPack1]

[Centurion2000]

no disrespect but it's pretty much wide open. PGP makes decent encryption. so does Entrust (1024 bit)

[eastforker]

Remember mindbenders report of some swarthy character running a car relocating business in Florida, a bin laden family member?

[Deb]

Hope they don't forget to wrap it in double foil. Tri-lateral Transmitter Beams wilt the lettuce. Bastards!

[Glenn]

What is FReepmail? No one ever tells me anything.

[eastforker]

OK,but does it allow access to private replies that can be deleted?

[expatguy]

Actually I was not joking.

As a news source Freerepublic cannot be beat. Many stories have broken here.

There are a lot of Freepers scattered across the globe who "report" all that they see and hear and many times the information could be considered sensitive or of interest to national security.

It would be extreemly naive to think that intelligence agencies around the globe do not "make use" of Freerepublic as well.

[FreedomPoster]

Where do you think "private reply" goes?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

A very little spycraft makes interception fairly useless anyway. The scientific data files in particular could hide the Library of Congress within them with every few days of traffic. I guess the point I am making is that this cat in particular is pretty much out of the bag.

The NSA and others was able to intercept radio and cable signals and, by dint of math and keen intellect, psych out the meaning of some of it. They used computers, back when hardly anyone else did--when IBM didn't think there was a market from more than a half a dozen of them.

Now that the communications traffic has exploded the way it has, I find it difficult to believe that sophisticated bad guys' email can even be detected. Things like Public Key Encryption are readily available which make a message look like a perfect hash almost as thoroughly as the Germans and Japanese thought they were doing--and people now routinely use that for legitimate business reasons, so you can't just take for granted that an encrypted message is an Al Qaeda message. And if you undertake heroic efforts to crack one message out of all that traffic, it probably turns out to be an honest citizen with a tinfoil hat on, just protecting his privacy.

Certainly it might be a serious problem--but unless you're willing to pull the plug on modern communications and turn in your computer to the government, it's pretty much a "them is the conditions that prevail" situation.

[Johnny_Cipher]

If anyone can sign up on a forum and use the private reply option without being detected or monitored, it could be a serious breach of security.

That's not possible. They would get zotted, their 72 virgins would be instantly transformed into 38 flatulent Rottweilers, and their Internet access would be switched over to AOL at 300 baud forever.

[MEG33]

I just hit private reply under your post and sent you a freepmail.Look up at the top where it says mail on your comments page.Click on.

[MEG33]

I sent you mail ,hit reply and let me know if you received it.Everyone has to learn the ropes.I have yet to make my first post of an article or a vanity or a picture!

[Sir_Ed]

"Yeah, never forget...it's the folks who are trying to protect you who are the real enemy."

Winston Smith had learned to love Big Brother...

Ed

[Deb]

Try to actually think about what you say. The NSA does not monitor emails "heavily" or otherwise. How could any agency possibly monitor millions and millions of emails a day? It's ridiculous. Certain key words and phrases are supposed to trigger a flag somewhere, in some system, but if it works like the usual government venture...you'll be safe from the jack-booted, G-men.

Geez! I wish the feds were as efficient as the tin-foilers thought. Maybe 3000 New Yorkers would be alive for the new year.

[eastforker]

A sobering and affectionate thought

[risk]

The NSA does not monitor emails "heavily" or otherwise.

Overloading Eschelon

But enough about that! Let's talk about UFOs!