blacklisting by SORBS

[Mike McCarty]

James Wilkinson wrote:
> Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> 
>>The only ones gaining advantage from us using our ISP's SMTP relay host
>>are the famous three letter agencies making it easier or even possible
>>for them to monitor out outgoing e-mail.
> 
> 
> I don't know about the legal side, but from a technical side:
> 
> It is simple to monitor all traffic going through a router. It is quite
> possible to pick out all traffic that goes to port 25, or has an initial
> response that looks like an SMTP banner.
> 
> The only way be certain that no-one is reading your e-mail (apart from
> the intended recipients) is to use known-to-be-secure cryptography.
> 
> At the moment, all we have is thought-to-be-secure cryptography (notably
> GPG)[1]. But we don't know what the NSA, GCHQ and other government
> cryptanalysts can do.

[snip]

By this reasoning, even a one-time-pad is insecure. Nothing is secure.
We don't know that the NSA hasn't got someone who can read your mind,
for example.

Mike
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