Art project adds tinge of terror to everyday email

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose... when I came online in the early 90s this was already something people had been doing for a long time.

I always thought a better way to chaff the NSA/whoever would be sending off a bunch of emails with -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- and a bunch of /dev/random nonsense

direct link to the project (as opposed to the article about the project): <a href="http://bengrosser.com/projects/scaremail/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bengrosser.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;scaremail&#x2F;</a><p>the artist uses NLP in Python to do analysis of an original text (Fahrenheit 451), uses that to swap out nouns&#x2F;verbs with &quot;scary&quot; versions, then uses Markov chains on the fly in Javascript to generate unique scary stories for each email.

I find such &quot;artistic&quot; projects to be contemptible. If you want to change society, you have to go through political, legal or commercial challenge, otherwise you will be ignored. There are already too many smug artist types who take up causes; your message will thus be drowned out.

Cute, but pointless; I strongly doubt the NSA&#x27;s recognizers are naïve enough to be confused by random verbiage of this sort.