[10927] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: DOJ proposes US data-rentention law.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Sat Jun 22 15:18:18 2002
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:40:00 -0400
From: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@mit.edu>
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <005c01c2196e$770b6e50$206694d1@LUCKYVAIO>; from shamrock@cypherpunks.to on Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 02:56:10PM -0700
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 02:56:10PM -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
> Locate the button in your MUA that's labeled "Use secure connection" or
> something to that effect, search the docs for your MTA for the words
> "STARTTLS", "relaying", and potentially "SASL", don't use your ISP's
> smtp server, encourage those that you are communicating with to do the
> same, and the email data retention laws will be of no bother to you.
Of course the anti-spam people are telling ISP's to block port 25 and
require end-users to forward their e-mail through the ISP owned mail
gateways...
I've always had the fear that in the clammer to get rid of spam we
would wind up building a centralized mail routing system, the spy's
delight!
-Jeff
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