On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:20:40 -0700 (PDT), Po Petz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, perdurabo wrote: > > > Additionally, if you are concerned about your privacy, you might want to > > give weight to a big corporation, as I am personally aware of local > > folks at a few local ISPs who like "examining web/nntp traffic" and > > "grepping for interesting keywords" in mail spool files. Sometimes being > > a little random cog in a big corporate machine is a good thing. > > Which is only to say that casual (*cough*) traffic correlation and > analysis done by a large ISP is less likely to be done by someone you know > and more likely to be governed and supported by a policy. A large user > pool buys precious little obscurity.
While I agree to a large extent, I think there's something to be said for large corporate ISPs with too many users, too many policies, too many eyes, and too much work to make "privacy violation" ventures feasible/desirable. I'd wager that it affords more than "precious little obscurity. But who knows, that's all theoretical, for all we know, Comcast is an NSA front. Nice domain name, do much crypto coding? Are you local? ~ per _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
