[Gllug] New EU data retention rules approved

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:11:35AM +0000, Anthony Newman wrote:

> While people have argued that you could run an SMTP listener on any port 
> to evade detection, the standard in the rest of the world is to receive 
> mail via SMTP on a *destination port of 25*. You can't avoid that if you 
> want to send email out to normal recipients. It is trivial to route that 
> traffic through a smarthost. If you want to send data using SMTP to a 
> pre-arranged recipient whose server listens on port 65525, you are 
> welcome. FTP would be better though.

That is exactly the point. This is *yet* another law that hampers the
law abiding citizen. I have heard directly from Osama that alKayedaNet
will now exchange mail on port 25000, that number incrementing by 1
every lunar month.

In a worrying fragmentation of Internet standards:
* the mafia will use port 32091
* the taliban ... actually computers are a western corruption, so: RFC 2549

What is worrying is that a law will be passed preventing email transfer over
anything other than port 25, this being enforced by a TPM chip that ensures
that only a OS approved/signed by: Bill G, errrm I mean: large labour party
donors, errrm I mean: large, quality s/ware vendors, errrm - I'm getting lost
please help me out here guys ....

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Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
+44 (0) 787 668 0256  http://www.phcomp.co.uk/

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