"Jam Echelon Day" doomed to failure, say experts
Organisers of the cyber-event are encouraging the Internet community to send out as many email messages as possible, containing certain "trigger words", which the Echelon system is believed to pick up on. If the bulk of monitored emails becomes too great, the theory is that the Echelon intelligence system will be overworked with intercepting spurious input, and so its effectiveness will drop.
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