Hello, Frank...

Dec 01, 2002 at 23:42, Frank Vest wrote to Jerry Schwartz:

 JS>> Technically, it is easier to eavesdrop on IP traffic than voice
 JS>> traffic but it isn't really easy to snoop on someone in particular
 JS>> unless you have access to a point on the route (which could change
 JS>> continually).

 JS>> Hanging out as I do on the user side of a cable modem, I don't see
 JS>> anyone else's traffic. If I could punch my way into a router
 JS>> somewhere, I could potentially snoop on all of the traffic passing
 JS>> through it.

 FV> Yes, but what would you see in regards to Fidonet?? A connect to some
 FV> domain on port 24455 with something that made less sense to you than
 FV> an encrypted e-mail? I guess there are "hops" in the connection, I
 FV> don't know?

 FV> I suppose that you could see who connected to who as far as IP
 FV> addresses, but that's about it?

Now you're asking the question "Does anyone care enough to
bother?" That's the same question you implicitly answer whenever you
make a phone call, send a letter, or whatever. If somebody cared enough,
they could snoop. If they had enough time and money, they could decrypt.

I don't worry about it. They'd have a bug on my keyboard long before they
went that far.

Regards,

Jerry Schwartz

mailto:jerryschwartz{at}comfortable.com
http://www.writebynight.com

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