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Re: alt.anonymous.messages

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On 2014-04-18, Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:
> Actually it has a number of flaws from a security viewpoint.  There
> was a recent in-depth evaluation by Tom Ritter, called De-Anonymizing
> Alt.Anonymous.Messages and presented at the DefCon 21 conference.  It
> is a 116 p. .pdf doc and there are discussions about the 'revelations'
> such as: // It seems there are issues with AAM, many of them related
> to the size of the mixmaster network, the poor tools available, and
> the sloppy operational practices of the people who use it... //
>
> Ritter did a lot of analysis of metadata as well as a little cracking
> by acquiring 1.1 million messages over the last 10 years and
> 'digesting' them.  There are plenty of places to get the .pdf and
> here's Ritter's page intro'ing
> http://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm.html

So, is the purpose of an app like the one they're discussing on
alt.privacy (http://genmixdummy.sourceforge.net I think) simply to
crapflood the newsgroup to lower the signal/noise ratio?  If that's the
case, seems like a somewhat futile strategy.  I'll have a look at that
PDF - seems fascinating.

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alt.anonymous.messages RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-16 11:15 +0000
  Re: alt.anonymous.messages Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-16 11:28 +0000
  Re: alt.anonymous.messages Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-04-16 05:03 -0700
    Re: alt.anonymous.messages RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-17 23:51 +0000
      Re: alt.anonymous.messages Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-04-17 17:45 -0700
        Re: alt.anonymous.messages RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-18 21:12 +0000
          Re: alt.anonymous.messages RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-19 17:47 +0000
            Re: alt.anonymous.messages Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-04-20 10:07 -0700
        Re: alt.anonymous.messages Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-19 20:18 +0000

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