RL>  AT> I wonder why the cellphone companies don't do more to protect their
 RL>  AT> customers? Encryption of data isn't something that they haven't
 RL>  AT> mastered.
 RL> 
 RL> Because they use that data for their purposes.
 RL> 
 RL> Not too long ago, someone was testing some stuff out with an email
 RL> server that he was setting up - mainly why it wasn't negotiating a
 RL> secure/encrypted connection.
 RL> 
 RL> Long story short: His ISP was actively changing the data stream to/from
 RL> his email server to BLOCK the request to turn on encryption.  He let his
 RL> ISP know that this was a violation of the law and they soon took that
 RL> out, but had no explanation of why it was there in the first place.

The elite are aware that a few of us are trying to evade their invasion of our privacy. In some cases, like the one you mentioned, they back down. I'm currently in process of begging one of the major free email providers to unblock my wife's email server's IP address from delivering mail to their recipients.

With that being said, does that solve the mystery? They either enjoy all the begging, or they're on a collective mission to monitor all of our communications (probably both.)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/04/30 (Windows/64)