On 3/5/2012 1:44 PM, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > My bad suspicion is that they are in the process of installing some > (more or less crappy) mail intercepting facility (i.e. to spy on users) > and that this is probably the government who ordered that. This is > Europe (Poland) but do you think such things are uncommon elsewhere? I > think they are common.
This is paranoia. Unless you are a legitimate target of govt eavesdropping. But if that were the case, why would they screw with your smtp traffic in a way that would tip you off? If the govt were going to do such a thing, surely they'd simply jack a tap into your provider's routers/switches and have the provider send a duplicate stream of ALL or your traffic to the tap interface. This is absolutely trivial to do with most decent switches/routers, technically anyway. >From a legal standpoint it requires a warrant in the US, in Poland I have no idea. In the US this is done with the infamous 'Carnivore' box. I would guess the cause of this problem is due to reasons far less sinister. Have you bothered to inquire with your ISP about the problem? Or are you afraid they are 'in league' with the govt powers that are spying on you? Sigh. I'm about to use the word nutbar. Doh, I just did. :) -- Stan
