Terrorists on ROFF?

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:06:57 +0100, "riverman"
wrote:

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What do you guys think: would it be possible for an AlQueda type to pass
info on ROFF without being noticed? It seems to me that just about every
Usenet site that I know of has its 'residents' who would notice newbies
having conversations on the side. Its only anonymous to those who aren't
there.

--riverman


Trolls. SPAMmers. Both drop in on newsgroups everywhere and are
seldom paid much attention unless they hang around and self justify.

However, chat rooms are more reasonable for instant communication and
Web pages and binaries much more reasonable for passing on longer term
stuff. I've only ever examined any chat rooms briefly and at loooong
intervals (every few years is more than enough for me), but they allow
reasonable privacy. I don't know if the persons running the channel
can see when new users drop in, but they could go right into more of
the "Hey, any gurlz on here 2nite?" crap and all that and drive almost
any drop in visitor away.

I play one game on Yahoo that has an attached chat part. I turn it
off as soon as the game's entirely loaded, but catch some of it. Gag.
It wouldn't take much in way of disguise for a few people to be on
there and act as if they're talking up a favorite band, perhaps named
"Fear and Death", and asking what its tour stops will be. One could
pop in cities, dates, times, and even locations. "Yeah, they'll be in
Boston on the 28th. That club down on the corner of 1st street and
15th avenue. Afternoon for the kiddie concert. 3pm for the warm up
band, "Destruction Zone" and then the main act at 4pm." Of course
they'd have to get up on chat room English variants, which I'm not, in
spite of the small example above, but that shouldn't be too hard.

Luckily, the terrorists seem to be short on imagination. There are so
many awful things they could do so easily that they've not yet done.
Or else I have a very vivid imagination and more paranoia than a group
with Rumsfeld and Ashcroft and 40 neocons and Vince Foster's killer
combined.

PS: the part about Foster's killer is fiction. I, in the small
amount of time I considered it, do believe he offed himself. Maybe
not where he was found, though...

Cyli
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