-- At 11:24 AM 12/16/2000 -0800, Eric Murray wrote:
Only by running your own mail or news server can you prevent the ISP from monitoring your email or news reading.
My newsreader, like most people's newsreaders, automatically downloads those newsgroups I am interested in full, in the background. Therefore there is no way anyone can no which particular message of "alt.anonymous.messages" I have read. Alt.anonymous.messages is completely effective. It does not provide mere obscurity, but rather supplies true security. To determine who I am communicating with, and what I was saying, the adversary would need to compromise my firewalled computer. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG /HoDeqkrstPjC1zLMA8ggxmk0U1w1LZHGpo0tSFB 4iW+dQFuOF/JostNZWllHlMlU7zV8knH3Xv+7VKOz