[UA] Spam?

James Knevitt weebleweeble at hotmail.com
Sat Mar 20 11:20:48 PST 2004


> -----Original Message-----

> Anyone considered if some secret message is contained within 
> these blocks? It seems all you'd need is the right key to 
> decode the message.  Might be a pretty interesting way for 
> people in the Occult Underground to keep in touch.  Hiding in 
> plain sight and all.

IIRC, there was a method of text encryption used on newsgroups for a
while that dressed up regular text as seemingly mundane but unconnected
sentences. Things like "Mary visits the store. The newspaper boy dances
with the bicycle." Things like that.

I'm personally curious as to how THAT system worked.


James




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