From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.inka.de)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 13:29:34 MDT
Extropian Agroforestry Ventures Inc. <megao@sasktel.net> wrote:
> If emails about subject matter carnivore is not interested in and material
> with just the right word/context to make it subject to scrutiny are sent is
> it possible to detect
> carnivore by looking at time delays between send and reciept.
I don't know how Carnivore is/was supposed to be implemented, but
the sensible way to tap email on the fly is to passively snoop on
SMTP traffic.
> I sent some emails to the same location with excerpts of the patriot act and
> some rather inflammatory deliberate references to cannabis and police
> state. Those took 2 hours longer to pop up at the recipient site than
> ordinary emails sent the same time to the same location. Ones simply sent to
> myself poped up in minutes.
You might want to invest a bit of time into learning how email is
transferred on the Internet.
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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