Yet more stego scare in the New York Times

Enzo Michelangeli em at who.net
Tue Oct 30 18:18:07 EST 2001


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bram Cohen" <bram at gawth.com>
To: "Nelson Minar" <nelson at monkey.org>
Cc: "Crypto List" <cryptography at wasabisystems.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: Yet more stego scare in the New York Times


[...]
> hotmail/yahoo/hushmail/etc. accounts - these are used for a very limited
> degree of anonymity, but are quite happy to obey search warrants. Nothing
> threatening here.

For Hushmail, this would require boobytrapping the applet that does the
encryption in the client, or the JVM in the client itself: it's not only
matter of search warrant.

Enzo





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