Re: Comcast man-in-the-middle attack

["Crist J. Clark" <cristjc () earthlink net>]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 04:08:02PM -0800, J Edgar Hoover wrote:
> On 8 Feb 2002, jon schatz wrote:
[snip]

> > I truly don't buy it. No offense, but your level of paranoia seems to
> > match your email handle. I mean, if they really wanted to track all
>
> I *catch* them snarfing my traffic, and I'm paranoid?

They are your ISP. All of your traffic goes through their
machines. They already see it all. If they want record the data you
are sending over their network, they could do so without you ever
knowing. So can everyone else in between your computer and the other
of any connection. It seems like one might as well get all uptight
that _they are storing your email on their servers!_ Of course they
are if you have a maildrop with them. They see all of your HTTP
traffic! Of course they do, it crosses their network.
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