Remember Echelon?

That was the super-secret NSA computer system that was sampling all of our email over a decade ago. You were to use a specific paragraph in all your email designed to flood Echelon with more data than it could handle. Each of us should use the same set of triggers, and that would force Echelon to try and correlate all email to each other — an impossible task — and get every one of us on a watch list. Now that the NSA really IS filtering all of our email, where’s that block? From the Usenet archives…. —- BEGIN ECHELON BLOCK —- SCUD missile Ortega AK-47 Uzi $400 million in gold bullion Rule Psix Nazi militia Project Monarch counter-intelligence JFK cypherpunk Kibo Ron Brown clones bomb special-ops terrorism WACO nuclear missile MI5 —– END ECHELON BLOCK —– Wow! Ortega and Waco! Oh, the memories….