Matthew Stringer wrote:
On Friday 02 June 2006 11:59, Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no wrote:
John wrote:
Can someone please clarify the following:
If I use my ISP to send email, they log it and keep the record for years.
No ISP will keep copies of mail sent the amount of data would cost a fortune to store, for example the ISP I work for relays 30 million + emails per day, every day that's thousands of terabytes/year. We keep copies of the headers for a few months but even that is a lot of data, no-one ever looks at it unless we get a specific request from the Police.
I wouldn't worry about someone spying on you or recording what you do, the shear volume of the data that can be collected makes it unusable as nothing could ever sift through all that data at the same rate it's collected.
Used to be the case, but no longer. Here in the states, the NSA has been installing carnivore-style boxes in many of the biggest ISPs. They just sit there and suck up the data for later analysis. They even claim they can reconstruct VoIP calls from the rtp traffic. Encryption is the _only_ way to ensure privacy (and even that's only for a certain amount of time). I also recommend going with smaller ISPs. Most of us would tell the goons to take a hike if they showed up here, whereas the high powered CEOs only see the potential for more government contracts and weakly roll over. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com