[Gllug] Bomb the ISP's

[Xander D Harkness]

In many respects I think that more people should have set up smtp
encryption.  Most SMTP servers are capable of it.

We would then get the whole process encrypted including header and
sender.

email has replaced snail mail in many respects - I do not see the SIS or
CIA demanding that the post office provide them with data or the means
to observe who sends mail and to where.

Cheers
Xander


On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 16:31, John Edwards wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:05:26PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:43:08PM +0100, Gordon Joly wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Didn't the BBC report that the Taliban had shutdown Afghanistan's links to
> >>> the Internet a few months ago, citing the usual reason of immorallity, etc?
> >>>
> >>> That would have made it is little hard for any terrorists in Afghanistan to
> >>> coordinate attacks via the Internet.
> >> 
> >> Unless they use satellite links?
> > 
> > No, the Taliban would never use satellite (think of the other immoral uses of
> > satellite). This seems like an excellent use of RFC 1149 (IP Datagrams on
> > Avian Carriers) - which I have only just realised was updated in 1999 by
> > RFC 2549.
> 
> Hang on a minute wasn't Alan Cox involved in a top secret implementation 
> of RFC 1149 in Norway about a year ago ? I don't think it involved any 
> encryption in the protocal, but that still allows the use of encryption in 
> the application layer. Maybe.... <SANITY CUTOUT>
> 
> Anyway it's probable that few people knew how these terrorists communicated 
> otherwise any receipents of a message would have been under suspicion. Even 
> when the contents of an email are encrypted it's sender, receipent and date 
> are not, that's still more information than a secret group would want to 
> have released. The only advantage that an email would have over a courier 
> is that of speed and according to reports these attacks were planed over a 
> long time.
> 
> 
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