[cryptome] Re: Ask Zelda
- From: Alan Taylor <altaylor06@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 20:40:23 +0100
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OH yes indeed.. I wonder just where the NSA versions of MS Office have
ended up.. I would speculate at some very exotic locations...
Regards
AT
On 05/09/14 20:31, John Young wrote:
> Imperceptible tracing tags, and/or false files, are placed in
> sensitive data repositories as well as inside some of the files in
> order to be able to trace them. This is done also in cryptosystems
> and other security devices. They may be hidden, open, semi-hidden
> to be discovered as decoys, timed to be released variously over a
> period of time, sometimes quite lengthy, sometimes triggered by
> geo-location as well.
>
> The more sensitive the data the more intricate the traces, traps,
> pointers, deception, ruses, decoys, ploys, gambits, and so on. No
> sensitive data, comsec system or espionage means and methods is
> without them.
>
> These are somewhat similar to what literary forensic specialists
> use to track plagiarism and forgeries but considerable more
> devious. Very long history of these, on the bitter lessons of
> expected betrayal.
>
> This is not to overlook that Snowden may have deployed his own
> trackers to trace where his free gift was distributed and to
> double check the recipients honestry and fidelity, knowing that
> turncoats are easily manufactured by persuasion, pressure, ego and
> as always, money.
>
> Snowden may well have advised recipients to deploy trackers of
> their secondary recipients. And so on.
>
> Bear in mind that Snowden was trained by the CIA in humint and
> technicla tradecraft and worked for the agency for years before
> his brief employment with NSA contractors. Nothing of the CIA
> databases and tradecraft to which he had access has been released.
> Reported rationale for this is that he does not want to endanger
> CIA officers. Odd distinction between two closely wedded agencies,
> although they are said to be like two scorpions in a bottle which
> consider one another as the number one enemy.
>
>
> At 02:24 PM 9/5/2014, you wrote:
>> How would disinformation be inserted in Snowden's downloads? Can
>> you be more specific about the mechanism?
>
>
>
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