-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Michael E. Carboy wrote:
Greetings All,
Question for the group: I have encountered a situation that causes me to believe an ISP is snoopingthrough encrytped mail. It seems that PGP'd mail has aroused the curiosity of an ISP (not hooked.net).. I have encountered "POP3 account in use by another user" several times in the past few days and I am the only user... wondering if that "in use" messsage is the result of a clumsy sysadmin being caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Any thoughts from the group??? If those more knowledgeable than I deem these NOISE... my sincere apologies.
Any sysadmin using POP3 to snoop through your mail would have to be a complete moron. It's much easier to just "cat /usr/spool/mail/user" which is undetectable. The sysadmin could then use touch to set the "last read" value to the previous value. Anyone with complete access to the POP3 server would be able to snoop through anyone's mail undetected. My guess is that you are getting that error from a stale lockfile. If any sysadmin is snooping through your mail, you wouldn't know it. Mark - -- PGP encrypted mail prefered. Key fingerprint = d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMka/4CzIPc7jvyFpAQGc8gf/WgKKIzTnh+FO3V8YLEn4ZjFL1SVtMzyT SsOQ+DXiEPt4Cul4PKGaBtmkvJoVgUuVp6HanbQAtsQhCBi/P5xrVU2lvIjx4K/+ c0PfSmbpc8GrAy8QeCpGMRkBYOgPyqG3A+v7nG7NGcxsShiGewMbAfjpKz/mKjsU tqAc5VUHTAIbuvUW8OUss0u8/6DmRFcfxNmtGJXw7bgfnxilwpRsW5cUEyJaO0ni pBbiN41nssXP5pYN75odZBzEpycmwdRfLaEHCIV0yKFSfugYNI5mUWqpMVxe25bL csel/zdg07B3NRvLg3LJ6kf73WUS3U+KDl7Rgt7Yv0qbEZRl+hk4fA== =DIH1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----