Re: Carnivore processing cause of email reciept delay?

From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.inka.de)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 13:29:34 MDT

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    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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