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Re: [Cryptography] dead man switch [was: Re: Snowden "fabricated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dan@geer.org)
Wed Jul 10 03:21:22 2013
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From: dan@geer.org
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jul 2013 17:07:26 BST."
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Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:20:06 -0400
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for a novel treatment of a dead man switch, read _Daemon_ by Leinad Zeruas
<spoiler>
botnet that uses MainStreamMedia news feeds as a covert channel
insofar as the MSM cannot help themselves but to publicize nasty
events that the botnet is itself capable of causing, thus allowing
the botnet to know collectively what each part of it is doing and
that without a C&C channel other than the repurposed MSM; the fun
begins when the botnet reads the obituary of a certain person
</spoiler>
--dan
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