Re: Who is snooping on my email?

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Blue Boar wrote:

> Richard M. Smith wrote:
> >    5.  If the server log file ever shows this 
> >        URL being accessed, then you know that
> >        you are being snooped on.  The IP address
> >        of the access can also provide clues
> >        about who is doing the snooping.
>
> Surely the NSA could do better than that?  Could they not tell that both 
> email accounts are you?  (A plot point from Dan Brown's "Digital 
> Fortress", actually... decent suspense, horrible on technical accuracy.)

The horribleness of the technicals spoiled it considerably for me, as did 
the horribleness of the techicals on anoter of his books (he seemed to 
thing that the electron was the antiparticle of the proton).

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