[KarlInOhio]

I remember the old days of "Echelon bait" on emails and Usenet postings. Just include a few words like plutonium and sarin in every posting to force the NSA to examine every message in detail.

Now a far more effective way would be to send a large number of encrypted messages to force them to spend CPU time to decrypt everything, even the messages which just say "Hi Mom!"

[Mercat]

I handled an international custody case years ago. At the time the agency coordinating this was the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. When I tried to translate that name into Spanish, it always went and came back as “exploded” children. Opps. I used a bad word. Sorry Jim.