Five volunteers needed (EU only please)

[Stefan Claas]

Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
 
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 05:37:57PM +0200, Stefan Claas wrote:
> > 
> > Why I came up with this idea? Well I thought of a way to send private content digitally,
> > without Internet usage, so that 3rd parties outside the EU have it difficult to intercept
> > such messages, in order to protect EU businesses and to show the young generation that
> > local postal services should be supported, in favor of a globally surveilled Internet.
> 
> Wouldn't using NFC chips be counter to this goal? It's extremely easy to 
> identify the presence of NFC chips, such that an agency could easily 
> scan entire bags of mail to identify if there are any present.

Yes, it is possible. However we have in Germany for example additional postal
services (PIN AG) one could use locally and I doubt (while I do not know)
that TLAs or LEAs currently require them to collect such data. 

In case of letter usage, their are also RFID protection covers available,
so I would guess that these do not show that a letter contains an NFC
tag.

https://www.getdigital.eu/RFID-Protection-Cover.html

I also assume that for example local postal services, regardless where
they are located have no deal yet with international TLAs, LEAs to hand
over this date.

Last but not least, they could also been used as dead drops, locally.

> As an aside, this reminded me of the "nonce encryption using two HOTP"
> devices scheme that I thought up a while back:
> https://paranoidbeavers.ca/spy-stuff.html
> 
> (the title wrongly calls it "forward secrecy," so just ignore that bit)
> 
> -K

Cool, thanks for the info! :-)

Regards
Stefan


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