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On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 08:21:13AM -0500, Jeff Ogden wrote: > So what is the real story here? Is all, most, some of our > international Internet traffic being intercepted by various > governments? Is it only international traffic that is at issue or is > domestic traffic within the US subject to routine eavesdropping > without a court order? i have been operating under the assumption that someone, somewhere could be listening in on the traffic of the internet. it could be government (local or foreign). it could be a script kiddie that managed to weasel into a core facility without being noticed. it could be an employee of a core facility doing it on a whim. these days i don't imagine it would be difficult to weed through the traffic and narrow the focus down to individual users or groups of users. i guess the trick is to make sure that you don't become a target. either don't say/do anyting that would make you a target or become more vigilent about using ssh/pgp/ssl/etc/etc in your communications. -- [ Jim Mercer [email protected] +1 416 506-0654 ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ]
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