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Originally Posted by LazyScot
As HarryT has mentioned, traffic analysis would, I guess, show a lot of interesting things. Operating an SMTP server would not "hide" what you are doing as the data is still carried over the network, and I guess they can pick up the traffic as it flows across the network, identifying where the data is going.
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Using encryption (SSL) means your isp can't tell what kind of traffic is passing over their network. They can't tell if it's web traffic, ftp, bitorrent, a connection to a usenet server, OR email traffic. Only that's it's ssl and that there is traffic coming and going. And using SSL is very easy to do. Again anyone up to anything remotely dodgy would be using their own servers with encryption. So I can't see how traffic analysis would work. They'll be analyzing email traffic and that won't show up with ssl in use.
Heck I use a commercial email provider (who's servers are in New York) with imap and ssl. So my email simply won't show up in their new monitoring system at all! (I'm in the uk).
Utterly pointless.