Homeland Insecurity 10023
I'm quite sure that anyone with a few years of programming experience could write some encryption scheme that *most* people couldn't break. But give your cipher-text to a cryptologist who works for the CIA...
There are no absolute set patterns in human behavior and communication...especially not in a world where you can never tell for certain who a person really is. Carnivore was a foolish, deficient, lacking design from the very beginning and no amount of "enhancement" is going to change that fact...ever. The government wasted tax payer dollars on a system that been proven time and time again to be grossly ineffective...but then what else is new? Has Carnivore stopped terrorism, of any kind? Well since we've been seeing a rise in terrorism, it stands to reason no. Zit lnlztd ol ql oftyytezoct ql ngxk qwosozn zg ktqr ziol ltfztfet. Teh crypto peeps might like that...of course I can extend that as far as I like, hell I can even take the encoded text and then reencode it in ROT13, base64, anything I like. Hell I could even reencode it as ROT13, then base64, then as ROT13 again and then base64 again and I could do that for an indeterminable number of times and unless you knew the precise number of reencodes you wouldn't have much luck figuring it out, now would you? ^^
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