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Re: government eavesdropping
- From: Jim Mercer
- Date: Thu Feb 24 09:08:02 2000
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.
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