| From: | Andy Wanless |
| Date: | 14 Aug 2000 at 21:38:57 |
| Subject: | Re: PGP and UUen/decode |
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Matt Sealey wrote:
>
> > Or you want to piss off the government by encrypting everything and put
> > paid to their idiotic RIP bill ;)
>
> But they can pull up to your house and get them to make you give your
> private key up, still. Encryption isn't a way of avoiding the bill, more a
> way to ensure that you'll be ensnared by it.
Which either leads to "Ok, here's my key. Look! It's all innocent! Sorry
you wasted your time", or "I've lost it".
> My effort to circumvent silly ISP monitoring schemes will be to set up my
> own mailserver when I get ADSL :)
That won't necessarily work, will it? My email doesn't sit on my ISPs
servers, just comes straight through to me using SMTP. However, it still
passes through my ISP at some point.
So two options if RIP is going to be at all effective. Either make the
ISPs install something that monitors all the traffic coming through their
routers, or make having your email delivered by SMTP illegal and force
everyone to use POP3 instead and monitor the mail servers.
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