On Tuesday 18 May 2004 01:39 pm, Christopher Brian Jack wrote: > Any smarthost is bad becuase any of them can potentially analyze your > email going through it (they don't even need to do that; they can just > inspect the headers in the MTA logfile).
Perhaps you're unaware, but there exists monitoring technology that analyzes traffic patterns over backbones and upper-level tiers which will expose whatever you do, no matter which (in this case) SMTP method you use (provided the data is unencrypted). > With the whole PayPal thing how > long before ISPs start using *their* TOSes as weapons against freenet > particpants. There are a lot more ISPs than PayPal's around meaning > there could be a lot more people that disagree with FreeNet's principles. A valid point, one that the freenetproject cannot control. > An ISP could do the exact same thing to someone participating in freenet > either as a node or by participating on one of their mailing lists in a > similar manner to how PayPal suspended the FreeNet donation account. All > they'd have to do is look through their MTA log and see the destination > (they wouldn't even need to see the message data) then do their thing - > "that user is involved with something to do with open proxies - let's > suspend his/her account for TOS violation" Currently they would just analyze traffic patterns, and even if the data is encrypted, they can make certain assumptions as to the kind of software making the analyzed requests (suspended bi-directional transferring of data, 24/7 = probable P2P app; type irrelevant). So how will changing the mail server address all these issues? -- Jay Oliveri GnuPG ID: 0x5AA5DD54 FCPTools Maintainer www.sf.net/users/joliveri _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
