On (02 Dec 02) Jerry Schwartz wrote to Frank Vest...

Hello Jerry,

 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?

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

That is true.  on another string, let's say that your mailer
connects to my mailer via binkp (or some Fidonet protocol) to exchange
mail. The ISP "cop" notices that we are exchanging a file. He grabs a
copy to find out what we are doing. Once he get the file intact, he
will find a file with 8 digits and a three digit extension that he's
wondering "what the heck is this?!?". If he tries to view that file,
he might notice the "PKZip" in the top of the file and realize that it
is a zip file. He might unzip the file and find the mail packet. He
might view that. Most likely, unless he has had experience in
Fidonet, he's gonna wonder "what the heck is this?!?" and delete it.
:)

If he thinks that the mail bundle is an encrypted file (good
possibility), he might try to decrypt it. Gawd, that would be rich to
watch. :-))


Regards,

Frank

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/flv
http://biseonline.com/r19

... UnZip, expand, explode... What kind of pervert came up with this?

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