Re: Comcast man-in-the-middle attack

[Alen Capalik <alen () tradeware com>]

> 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.

Amen to that.  Finally somebody points out THE OBVIOUS!!!

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Alen Capalik
Chief Security Engineer
Tradeware Systems LLC 
alen () tradeware com