Macron's IT seems to have outsmarted leakers

[Foolmewunz]

Nah, the hackers will figure out it's the OED sooner rather than later.

Get a coding software (freeware ones are fine) and have a team prepare various coded messages that are then sent around by campaign staff, three messages per week per staffer should be unproblematic if the messages are prepared in advance. Make sure the codes are simple enough to guess (names of places and events) and the text contained therein meaningless and unobtrusive: Bible passages, grocery shopping lists, famous movie quotes, what appear to be username/password combinations and links to more or less random internet sites with logins. Forums are a good choice.

It should be enough to keep the hackers busy for a few weeks, which is all you need.

McHrozni

Oh, you want them to figure out it's the OED, then spend two months plucking out the select words and trying to make sense of them.

 

[ddt]

Oh, you want them to figure out it's the OED, then spend two months plucking out the select words and trying to make sense of them.

What about using the post-modern gibberish essay generator? The hackers would not stop staring at the text trying to make sense of it. And it would especially be successful in France.

 

[McHrozni]

What about using the post-modern gibberish essay generator? The hackers would not stop staring at the text trying to make sense of it. And it would especially be successful in France.

Oh yes. This. It is indistinguishable from many actual 'works' on political theory:

“Sexual identity is responsible for capitalism,” says Foucault. Derrida uses
the term ‘social realism’ to denote not dematerialism, but neodematerialism.
Therefore, if neocapitalist discourse holds, the works of Gaiman are
modernistic.



McHrozni

 

[McHrozni]

Oh, you want them to figure out it's the OED, then spend two months plucking out the select words and trying to make sense of them.

Yeah, if they fall for it. I'm not saying the principle is wrong per se, just that the OED is not an optimal choice for it.

Using a 500 kword book of machine-produced gibberish on the other hand ... yeah, that would work swell

McHrozni

 

[Dave Rogers]

Using a 500 kword book of machine-produced gibberish on the other hand ... yeah, that would work swell

How about a copy of every free e-book on Amazon? Would there be a difference?

Dave

 

[McHrozni]

How about a copy of every free e-book on Amazon? Would there be a difference?

Dave

I believe so, 500kword book of gibberish would almost certainly be studied by a team of experts for hidden clues, messages, passwords and more. Having a large volume of meaningful text would be more readily be seen as nothing more than a collection of books. The gibberish part is essential.

To give you some impression of how long 500kwords is, A Dance with Dragons by George Martin is ~485kwords, War and Peace by Tolstoy is ~575kwords and the Bible (by God? ) is ~750kwords. Imagine being in charge of a detailed study of a book of that length, composed of paragraphs such as this one:

“Sexual identity is intrinsically used in the service of class divisions,” says Lyotard; however, according to Prinn[3] , it is not so much sexual identity that is intrinsically used in the service of class divisions, but rather the dialectic of sexual identity. Sartre uses the term ‘the posttextual paradigm of reality’ to denote the role of the writer as reader. But the main theme of the works of Eco is the futility, and thus the paradigm, of semanticist society.

Now add in the part when this is done in a language other than your mother tongue. You won't be able to tell quite as easily it's gibberish. Searches for Bible codes and whatnot are far more likely than if you have a straight-up meaningful text of considerable length. It is also possible a few analysts will be driven to insanity, reducing the attackers' capacity to do damage

That plus every free book on Amazon would be a tad bulky to send around via e-mail.

McHrozni