Email snarfing

[Meyer Wolfsheim]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 mean-green at hushmail.com wrote:

> I've recently encountered a number of email problems (delayed
> delivery, lost mail, etc.) both from my pop accounts and Hush.  I'm
> not trying to be paranoid but could these be caused by problems of
> TLA-installed transparent SMTP, POP, and HTTP proxies at ISP's in a
> man-in-the-middle mode, so that they'd be sure to see all traffic,
> because Carnivore's storage capacity is pretty limited?

Carnivore's storage capacity wouldn't be the issue. Rather, it's difficult
to find a position on modern networks where large amounts of traffic can
be monitored. Though, I cannot imagine that many ISPs would submit to such
an order.

Also, Hushmail has been very unreliable since its upgrade to "2.0".


-MW-