Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Sat, 09 Sep: > Even technically - if Gmail directly connects to the SMTP port on your > private server - how is the government supposed to be able to intercept, > analyse and then block your TCP stream "live"? It's not impossible but would > require going to a great length in order to achieve, don't you think?
there are proxies in firewalls you know, and they are not even too expensive. They are mainly used to catch spam or malware, but the exact same technology is easely adapted to eavesdropping. Unless Uri checkes the TCP packets are really coming from where they are supposed to be, who's to tell he is getting the mail from Google or from a proxy? Need to dig the logs... Also, there are many ways to listen to TCP packets and kill a session in flight if you are on the route. that's how the Echelon system might work if it wasn't simply passive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON -- Curse of the bambino Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
