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Hello Graham Foster,
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:04:00 +0100 GMT your local time,
which was Thursday, July 20, 2000, 6:04:00 PM (GMT+0700) my local
time,
Graham Foster wrote:


> Hello Jason Thompson

>> This is all very interesting and thought-provoking speculation,
>> Steve. But do you have any reason other than _speculation_ to
>> believe all this? Have you seen any tangible evidence of such
>> widespread
>> governmental snooping? To

> Well - there has been a great deal of press about it in national
> and specialist computer press in the UK. US Gov wanting specialist
> mail scanning ("Carnivore") boxes attached to every mail hub in the
> USA.. UK Gov. wanting ISP to allow gov. to scan e-mail and passing
> legislation to make it illegal to not divulge a password to secured
> systems when they ask you for it... UK GCHQ has had a central
> electronic communications scanning system for several years.

I was living next to one 16 years ago and it had been there for quite
a few years...

> Not paranoia - it is real - its just that most people don't want to
> know.

> Still I don't suppose TBBeta mailing list is really THAT world
> shatteringly important :-)

depends what you write on them and from where...
if your mail goes via  any of the main nodes, it gets scanned.

> Graham


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