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Old 06-21-06, 08:00 PM   #3 (permalink)
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The question of "which ISPs are snooping" is almost irrelevant.

Let's say for example that your ISP (for arguments sake - Verizon) is not snooping. You're chatting with a guy in Canada - let's say that his ISP is Bell Canada.

Even if Verizon is not snooping, for protection of your traffic you'd have to be sure that Bell Canada was not snooping and that none of the ISPs in the middle were either.

And you can't source route your traffic, so if your ISP routes your traffic through MCI and MCI happen to be snooping then it's irrelevant whether Verizon or Bell Canada are snooping.

So like Mikeyp says - don't do anything bad and you have nothing to worry about.

If you ARE worried then look into the Internet architecture in more detail and figure out the risks :)
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