IP Technical question

[Chris Edwards]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Ian Batten wrote:

| I could equally well be, and have indeed considered, renting a zone on a 
| Solaris box or the FreeBSD / Linux / VMware equivalent in the US, the 
| USSR or the Cayman Islands. It would cost me little more than a handful 
| of beans for the only communication in and out of my site to be heavily 
| encrypted traffic headed for a location completely outside UK 
| jurisdiction.

[...]

| So today, logs of my mail sending and receipt exist, within my hosts' 
| logs. But it would be trivial to arrange matters otherwise, and which 
| point I would generate no logs whatsoever.

OK, but your Cayman Islands box has to mail other places.

Traffic logs of your mail to/from UK-based ISPs will be held by those ISPs

If you mail UK individuals who use hotmail/yahoo accounts, the UK police 
may still be able to obtain the logs.  Or, suitably-placed IMP black-boxes 
might be able to sniff similar data when the recipient checks their 
hotmail from their UK broadband connection.