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by LekkoscPiwa 4700 days ago
Software that creates randomly TBs of fake email, voice (skype) and other communication daily to disrupt NSA. Possible? Helpful?

I.e. billions of emails created daily originating from millions of email accounts created daily that contain random words including the ones the NSA is looking for.

I mean, they went on the path of the least resistance with this whole PRISM thing. Kind of blatantly stupid approach of "just listen to everything". That can possibly be derailed by simple creating tons and tons of "everything" daily to feed their stupid programs.

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Even if I don't see why you are saying it on this specific thread, it actually came to my mind few days ago. I think it is a good, simple idea. No technical difficulties, just spamming and make the whole thing unanalyzable.
This has been discussed before, in the context of network security. You can read about efficacy/bandwidth constraints, but basically to provide any strong security you need to spend an overwhelming amount of bandwidth on noise. You must always operate at peak bandwidth to everyone. It becomes prohibitively slow and expensive.