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Re: blind forwards
From: visigoth () TELEMERE NET (Visigoth)
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:22:23 -0500
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looking at the message as received by the intended user. After all, if it *could* be reliably done, people wouldn't be nearly so worried about government taps! The only methods I can think of would all involve getting taps inserted around each relay machine and doing some traffic analysis. But even then you'd need to make sure you'd intercepted *all* traffic from the suspected machine. Possibly including the locally connected printer...
As scairy and far out as this sounds, the House of Lords in
England just submitted a law that would do just that.. ;)
(a little off topic but scairy...)
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/article.html?id=52
Visigoth
Damieon Stark
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
visigoth () telemere net
PGP Public Key: www.telemere.net/~visigoth/visigoth.asc
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