I appreciate what an honorable ISP admin will do to abide customer rights over intrusive snoopers and perhaps cooperative administrators above the pay grade of a sysadmin. Know that a decent sysadmin is on for about 1/3 of a weekday for 24x7 systems is a small comfort but leaves unanswered what can happen: 1. During that time when a hero is elsewhere. 2. Upstream of the ISP, the router of the ISP and the nodes serving routers, as well as at a variety of cache systems serving there various levels. 3. At major providers serving a slew of smaller ISPs. In this case I reported a while back of a sysadmin telling what my ISP, NTT/Verio, is doing at its major node in Dallas: allowing the FBI to freely scan everything that passes through the Verio system under an agreement reached with NTT when it bought Verio. No matter what a local sysadmin does with data, it remains very possible that data is scanned, stored and fucked with in nasty ways coming and going such that no single sysadmin can catch it. End to end crypt certainly could help but there is still a fair abount of TA that can be done unless packets are truly disintegrated and/or camouflaged at the source before data leaves the originating box. Pumping through anonymizers, inserting within onions, subdermal pigging back on innocuous wireless packets of the financial advisor door, multiple partial sends, stego-ing, data static and traffic salting, bouncing off the moon or windowpane, what else can you do when an eager beaver industry is racing to do whatever it takes to build markets among the data controllers breathing hot about threats to national security and handing out life-saving contracts to hard-up peddlers shocked out of their skivvies with digital downturn. No patriotic act is too sleazy these days that cannot be justified by terror of red ink and looming layoffs. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com