| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 15 Aug 2000 at 20:12:25 |
| Subject: | Re: PGP and UUen/decode |
Hello Alan
On 15-Aug-00, you wrote:
> hi,
>
>>> 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.
>
> so? they cant do anything with your private key apart from read email that
> is sent to YOU. to read the email you sent to other people, they'd need THAT
> persons key.
Read between the lines, Alan - they'll also pull up to THEIR house and get
THEIR private key as well.
>> My effort to circumvent silly ISP monitoring schemes will be to set up my
>> own mailserver when I get ADSL :)
>
> the people at your ISP could still read all your emails.
Only by monitoring the traffic to my IP address..
> even easier actually since they just sniff for packets going to
> whatever.your.mail.is ;-)
Well maybe, but what are the chances of that happening? Do I
really have to explain how much data goes through an ISP? :)
Thanks
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