| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 16 Aug 2000 at 20:27:34 |
| Subject: | Re: PGP and UUen/decode |
Hello Alan
On 16-Aug-00, you wrote:
>> But they can still read every message someone ever sent to you, and vice
>> versa (if they have their key as well)
>
> so? I'm not a criminal, terrorist or any subversive. Most of my email would
> be 100% boring to them...if not all ;-) I just dont like my mail being read
> by others who arent supposed to be reading it.
That isn't the point: if you don't send subversive mails, you won't get caught
by the bill, will you? But if you DO, there's NOTHING that you can do about
it and the bill can be *very* well justified!
>> And the next mail would be "btw I have £50 worth of crack cocaine, we'll
>> share it after we get ratarsed, matey!"
>
>> And then you go to prison.
>
> 1) it wouldnt be that and
But what if it WAS?
> 2) you really think the police care about anyone with sub-100 values of drugs?
I'm sure they'd love to know who you'd have bought it from..
>> odd IP-NAT config - and bypass the ISP by having most mail sent directly to
>> me (there is no guarantee that any mail will hit a certain SMTP server apart
>> from the destination one... IIRC)
>
> the packets would still go THROUGH the ISP though ;-)
*sigh*
Thanks
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