On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 09:26:12PM +0100, Martin Hamilton wrote:
> Graeme Fowler writes:
>
> | The longer this kicks around, the more angry I'm going to get.
>
> ...and they wouldn't like it when you get angry :-)
>
> My paranoid conspiracy theory version is that there's one organisation
> on the list who would attract a lot of flak if appended on their own,
> so the others are there to distract you from them. But which?!
Microsoft. It's just they havn't been listed. Yet. (Maybe they appear as
the Information commissioner)
> Something else that might make it a bit harder to track all the people,
> all the time... http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2487.txt
>
> Most of the major free software mail router programs (Exim, sendmail,
> qmail, Postfix) support it now to varying degrees.
>
> For folk who run their own mail servers (even via DynDNS type setups),
> this could be a good way of frustrating the bad guys' data mining
> efforts.
Yeah, probably in the same way as refusing to hand over passwords on
request: jail. (ok, not)
Seriously though, I don't see how this helps at all: Even if you use TLS
it a) doesn't guarentee that the email will pass from source to
destination encrypted and b) it in no way alters the RIPA: you would
still be required to archive all your logs.
Matthew
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