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Re: Swiss ISPs Required to Log and Store Email for Six Months
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Apr 9 13:54:39 2003
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:29:49 -0700
To: Thomas Shaddack <shaddack@ns.arachne.cz>,
Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
Cc: <cypherpunks@lne.com>, <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
At 9:41 AM -0700 4/9/03, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
>> SWISS ISPS MUST LOG AND STORE CONSUMERS' EMAIL DATA
>> As of April 1, Swiss ISPs will have to keep a log for six
>> months of all the emails sent by their customers. Experts
>> criticize the measure, saying it will be both difficult and
>> costly to implement.
>> http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/apr/01switz.htm
>
>If I understood it correctly, they want to keep "only" the
>traffic-analysis data, the SMTP server logs, not the messages themselves
>(though I'd bet they would love to, if it would be reasonably practical).
>
>I am curious if this applies even on provately-operated servers; eg, if
>you aren't cheap and instead of an account you buy a colocation server,
>with your own mailserver, when the ISP provides only the connection
>itself, without additional services.
I see a market oppertunity for SMTP servers outside Switzerland which use
SSL/TLS for communication, and perhaps listen on non-standard ports.
Cheers - Bill
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