<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>So Fahd, it is a good thing your packets don't go past china or Saudi Arabia say. If you live in those countries, well, your packets pass through a "great firewall" before they reach fb or twitter. Both of which, I might add, are available over https.</div><div><br></div><div>You might look up the due process of law for lawful intercept, which is quite useful to have around if only for the fact that criminals too are enthusiastic users of the Internet and early adopters of a lot of technology that its creators intended to help civil society communicate securely under a repressive regime.<br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 24-Nov-2012, at 18:10, McTim <<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Fahd A. Batayneh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fahd.batayneh@gmail.com" target="_blank">fahd.batayneh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">While I do have Facebook and Twitter accounts, I have not accessed any of them for quite a long time, and I do not use them. This is what one can expect when posting personal data online. However, if we look at things differently, who is not exposed (Internet users)? All our Internet traffic passes through the various Tier-1 ISPs in the USA and EU</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ALL, is a pretty strong statement. </div><div><br></div><div>Do you have any evidence for it?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">, and some of them might want to inspect traffic randomly as measures of "National Security".<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>None of them "want to", as it would impact business of passing packets.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-- </div></div>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>
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