From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 05:25:44 +0800
To: carboy@hooked.net (Michael E. Carboy)
Subject: Re: Snooping ISP admin??
In-Reply-To: <32468D68.5E2@hooked.net>
Message-ID: <199609231530.IAA14624@slack.lne.com>
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Michael E. Carboy writes:
> 
> Greetings All,
> 
> Question for the group:  I have encountered a situation that causes me
> to believe an ISP is snoopingthrough encrytped mail.  It seems that
> PGP'd mail has aroused the curiosity of an ISP (not hooked.net).. I have
> encountered "POP3 account in use by another user" several times in the
> past few days and I am the only user... wondering if that "in use"
> messsage is the result of a clumsy sysadmin being caught with his hand
> in the cookie jar. 

It's from a clumsy programmer- popd is known to hang up under
certain conditions.

> Any thoughts from the group??? 

If the sysadmin is reading your PGP mail, let him.  It's very very
unlikely that he has the resources available to crack a PGP
message in this century.


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Eric Murray  ericm@lne.com  ericm@motorcycle.com  http://www.lne.com/ericm
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