[66400] in Cypherpunks
Re: Snooping ISP admin??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adamsc)
Wed Sep 25 01:46:37 1996
From: Adamsc@io-online.com (Adamsc)
To: "Eric Murray" <ericm@lne.com>, "Michael E. Carboy" <carboy@hooked.net>
Cc: "cypherpunks@toad.com" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 96 22:28:02 -0700
Reply-To: "Chris Adams" <adamsc@io-online.com>
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:30:34 -0700 (PDT), Eric Murray wrote:
>> 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 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.
And if he does, his machine should be fast enough to read the entire mailbox
before Michael could notice... <g>
