Carnivore's Privacy..its all about the he said she said

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From: Tom Whore (tomwhore@inetarena.com)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 08:49:50 PDT

Moronivores rejoice. More moronic activities are being revealed every day.
Todays report comes fom http://cryptome.org/carnivore-mask.htm

Validation of this report has not been made, but its too damn funny to
hold back on. Confirm or deny on your own dime

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From: Anonymous
To: jya@pipeline.com
Subject: Carnivore review proposal
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 23:02:43 -0400

Have you seen the DoJ announcement of the Carnivore review team? The
winning proposal (http://www.usdoj.gov/jmd/pss/iitritechnicalproposal.pdf)
has most of the names blacked out -- but during the display, I noticed
that the overwritten stuff is at the PDF level; I could briefly see some
of the names during the screen-painting. (To be sure, what I saw were
names like "She H. She" -- maybe they've learned something...) Cryptome
has confirmed that digital overwrites in the Carnivore review proposal can
be unmasked by copying and pasting the PDF text or by using an Adobe
plug-in, such as Pitstop, to remove overwriting. This cloaking is weaker
than a similar technique used by the New York Times for cropping text of
the secret CIA report on Iranian Premier Mossadeq's 1953 overthrow:
http://cryptome.org/cia-iran.htm. In addition, the participants' resume
names are pseudonyms of "He" or "She," some of which can be replaced with
possible true names by comparison with other information in the
proposaland online sources. The IITRI proposal without overwriting:
http://cryptome.org/carnivore-iitri.pdf (205KB). If there are difficulties
downloading the file try: copy 2, copy 3, copy 4, copy 5, copy 6. Here are
excerpts of the proposal with restored portions shown in red.

Cryptome has confirmed that digital overwrites in the Carnivore review
proposal can be unmasked by copying and pasting the PDF text or by using
an Adobe plug-in, such as Pitstop, to remove overwriting. This cloaking is
weaker than a similar technique used by the New York Times for cropping
text of the secret CIA report on Iranian Premier Mossadeq's 1953
overthrow: http://cryptome.org/cia-iran.htm.

In addition, the participants' resume names are pseudonyms of "He" or
"She," some of which can be replaced with possible true names by
comparison with other information in the proposaland online sources. The
IITRI proposal without overwriting:
http://cryptome.org/carnivore-iitri.pdf
(205KB).

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