Silicon.com: Snooping Bill drives first ISP abroad

[Ian BROWN]

>able to monitor my POP3 and SMTP activity through warrants served to 
>UK ISPs that I use. Or is there a way to get around that as well - 
>technically?

Yep: just run encrypted links from your mailer to your mail host. Your UK ISP 
can then only see ciphertext if they monitor your mail traffic.

>On the issue of warrants on foreign service producers, we should also 
>remember that there are various  ongoing international discussions in 
>relation to interception of communications (e.g. G8, COE, EU) and in 
>the future we should not exclude the idea that such warrants may well 
>be binding outside the UK.

Good point: but as long as there is one jurisdiction in the world that won't 
sign up, we can all just move our mail servers and web proxies there.

Ian :)