On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Paul Syverson <[email protected]> wrote:
> We came up ourselves with potential application suggestions such as > open source intelligence gathering or "phoning home" as you put it. > We also came up with other ideas (some good, some bad) and also talked > to people about how it might be useful. As another example that I > remember from an early briefing slide: We knew about the 1991 pentagon > pizza channel > http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/government/a/war_and_pizza.htm > and we speculated that maybe in the future people would even be doing > incredible stuff like ordering food online (The Web was only two years > old at that point.) We had a picture where the ordering > information went over the Web from the Pentagon to Domino's and was > routed by an enemy (Iraq at the time of the putative pizza channel > concern). I remember a point I would make during presentations was > that the enemy could see the number of orders made by people at the > Pentagon to Domino's even if he couldn't break the encryption to know > if they were for pepperoni or extra cheese. (And this was years > before ShmooCon 2005 when Nick Mathewson uttered the immortal line: > "Look. Dan Kaminsky has just fit an entire meat-lover's pizza inside a > DNS request.") Pizza is a real problem: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hezbollah-names-cia-agents-in-lebanon/ Coffee too! -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
