[Cryptography] russian spies using steganography?

[Kent Borg]

A steganographic channel I have long thought is under appreciated is 
spam. I guess the flaw here is the real senders of spam seem to be 
pretty few (I see it come in in batches, some one person pushed a 
button, I see the results, not a lot of little mom-and-pop retail spam 
senders). Also, unfortunately to the spies, gmail does such a good job 
of filtering spam that who sees all that spam anymore?

Twitter also seems an interesting one-to-many channel. But I guess that 
depends on Twittter not letting the TLAs into their network, and not 
letting  them carefully monitor all the comings and goings.

-kb, the Kent runs his own e-mail server, so all his spam does make it 
all the way to his computer--he doesn't know how the rest live in the 
luxury of gmail.

P.S. I am convinced there are only a few big spammers,  "Who will rid me 
of this troublesome priest?", is a quote that comes to mind...
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