[Spooks] Thank you from the Project Evil team

[Zack Widup]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Jeff Wilson wrote:

> 
> Well, while it may be easy to DF a shortwave signal if you have
> adequate resources (like the government's), it's nearly impossible to
> tell who is receiving that transmission.
> 
> In the web world- however, there's a log for everything. Every person
> who visited that Craigslist link is logged. The poster himself was
> logged. And thanks to a powerful search engine like Google, one could
> search a large chunk of the internet for places where "MEIN FREULEIN"
> exists. From there, it's just a matter of filtering the data, then a
> quick subpeona of the telco's records for users from a certain area.
> Posting at an internet cafe with an anonymous account isn't safe
> either, due to the prevalence of cameras in such places.
> 

I wonder how easy it is to track telephone calls.  I'm assuming it was 
possible to keep track of who called the telephone numbers (whether or not 
that was done, I don't know).  I called the NY number but I used one of 
those cheap calling cards.  People with caller ID tell me that when I call 
them using the card, it always comes up with something like "Georgia Call" 
or "Virginia Call" or even once "Idaho Call". How easily can those be 
traced down?

> No the best way to covertly communicate online is to open an anonymous
> email account with Gmail or hotmail or something...then share the
> login/password with the person you intend to communicate with. Simply
> leave messages for each other from within the same account; voila, you
> avoid a lot of the risk online. You could even rot13 your one time
> number pad :)
> 

That is so simple and yet effective method that it makes me wonder why the 
numbers stations still exist. Maybe the intended audience has no computer?  
I suppose if you were a spy in a foreign country, you might not want to 
have a computer with you.

Zack