Silicon.com: Snooping Bill drives first ISP abroad

[Yaman Akdeniz]

On 10 Jul 00, at 13:57, Ian BROWN wrote:

> >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.

How do I do that? Could you explain this a bit more to me publicly or 
in private?

> >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.

Ideally I would like to see RIP ripped off and so that we do not have 
to go through loopholes etc but initiatives such as the draft COE 
convention shows that there will be less loopholes in the future. So we 
need to oppose such initiatives at both national and international level.


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Mr. Yaman Akdeniz,
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