> Forwarded by: An anonymous DoD person... > > Hi, > > The fact that Government computers can track everything you do is > *absolutely* no joke. I work for the United States Navy, and a friend > of mine was sending email to an old flame using excite web-based > email. Well, about twenty minutes later, his fiance comes in and > throws the same email he wrote in his face. > > It was a big reminder to me that Uncle Sam watches and monitors > *everything* - remotely too - even web based email services, etc. > Another case that was similar - a supervisor was repremanded for > sending encrypted email out of Navy computers. Guess he pissed off the > IT's (whom they affectionatly call themselves the 'Gate Keepers'). > > Anyway, just some food for thought. > > - Anonymous A contact in the Deparment of the Navy tells me that all mainstream webmail URLs have been blocked for over a year now. I know for a fact that outbound traffic headed for port 110 is blocked. My question is simple...isn't is more likely that this is a human networking issue rather than a computer networking issue. Perhaps the old flame wasn't very receptive to the email and forwarded it to the fiancee. Hmm...either that or somebody's full of... Food for thought. -- Jonathan Rickman X Corps Security http://www.xcorps.net ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email isn-unsubscribeat_private
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