https - hopefully not too stupid a question

[Roland Perry]

In article <4FDF771B.5040506 at zen.co.uk>, Peter Fairbrother 
<zenadsl6186 at zen.co.uk> writes
>some shadowy filtering organisation - looking through the entire UK's 
>web traffic for that traffic data

Are you sure the filter is being applied to "all data", and not just to 
"things which are mainly, but not entirely, traffic data". For example 
urls, or email headers, where depending on the context more or less of 
them is traffic data (and the remainder, content).
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Roland Perry