[66217] in Cypherpunks
Re: Snooping ISP admin??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Murray)
Mon Sep 23 11:44:52 1996
From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
To: carboy@hooked.net (Michael E. Carboy)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:30:34 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <32468D68.5E2@hooked.net> from "Michael E. Carboy" at Sep 23, 96 06:15:20 am
Michael E. Carboy writes:
>
> Greetings All,
>
> Question for the group: I have encountered a situation that causes me
> to believe an ISP is snoopingthrough encrytped mail. It seems that
> PGP'd mail has aroused the curiosity of an ISP (not hooked.net).. I have
> encountered "POP3 account in use by another user" several times in the
> past few days and I am the only user... wondering if that "in use"
> messsage is the result of a clumsy sysadmin being caught with his hand
> in the cookie jar.
It's from a clumsy programmer- popd is known to hang up under
certain conditions.
> Any thoughts from the group???
If the sysadmin is reading your PGP mail, let him. It's very very
unlikely that he has the resources available to crack a PGP
message in this century.
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Eric Murray ericm@lne.com ericm@motorcycle.com http://www.lne.com/ericm
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