In reference to my posting about word scrambling as a means of protecting online privacy, a reader named Jack has created a Scramber script in Python for obfuscating text such that it can still be read by recipients without decryption. So now you can Scramble all your email before sending it in cleartext across the net without using encryption keys. On the other side you readers can read it with no problem, but any bots, agents or sniffers enroute will not be able to recognize the words in your message. It would simply be too much calculation for a bot to test every possible permutation of every word against a dictionary. Because of that barrier, this method of scrambling words is likely to be quite secure against sniffers and bots. This is also a lot better than using standard encryption because that tends to set off alarms -- if someone is looking for secrets and they see something that looks like binary encrypted data they are going to get interested. But if it is merely text it will appear to be nothing more than a meaningless email message and won't arouse any curiousity. For example, "itnlelgneice acgeny." So this is a method of "hiding in a crowd." Of curose, tihs olny mtatres if you hvae smeotihng to hdie!!!!
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