[66271] in Cypherpunks
Re: Snooping ISP admin??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas R. Floyd)
Mon Sep 23 20:30:49 1996
From: "Douglas R. Floyd" <dfloyd@io.com>
To: carboy@hooked.net (Michael E. Carboy)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:12:43 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <32468D68.5E2@hooked.net> from "Michael E. Carboy" at Sep 23, 96 06:15:20 am
>
> 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. Any thoughts from the group??? If those more
> knowledgeable than I deem these NOISE... my sincere apologies.
An admin could just copy the mail spool file to a safer place, then read
through at their leisure.
Unless its someone totally clueless (which some ISP's are), I doubt that
they are pulling off the pop3d. It could be that your mail spool file is
locked by a mail transport agent, and that is why that error message is
occuring.
Any thoughts?
