Comments on: Can campaigns read instant messages and emails if you discuss the candidate? http://www.iowaforedwards.com/campaigns/can-campaigns-read-instant-messages-and-emails-if-you-discuss-the-candidate Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:08:59 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Stephen M http://www.iowaforedwards.com/campaigns/can-campaigns-read-instant-messages-and-emails-if-you-discuss-the-candidate/comment-page-1#comment-4181 Stephen M Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:13:59 +0000 http://www.iowaforedwards.com/campaigns/can-campaigns-read-instant-messages-and-emails-if-you-discuss-the-candidate#comment-4181 There are no programs that can just search all the email and IM streams occurring on the internet. Search engines and websites allow that because you actively visit those sites, so they can monitor you. IM could do that if they put monitoring software on the IM server, but it's doubtful that any has been installed. Email is a "fire and forget" kind of thing. The email hops from mail server to mail server until it reaches its destination. There could be monitoring done at any of those mail servers, but there are thousands if not millions of those. There is no guarantee what path your email will take. Thus no easy way to monitor everything in email. If someone wants to monitor your email, they need to be sure that they put their monitor on the first hop from you in order to ensure being able to collect.<br><b>References : </b><br> There are no programs that can just search all the email and IM streams occurring on the internet. Search engines and websites allow that because you actively visit those sites, so they can monitor you. IM could do that if they put monitoring software on the IM server, but it’s doubtful that any has been installed.

Email is a "fire and forget" kind of thing. The email hops from mail server to mail server until it reaches its destination. There could be monitoring done at any of those mail servers, but there are thousands if not millions of those. There is no guarantee what path your email will take. Thus no easy way to monitor everything in email.

If someone wants to monitor your email, they need to be sure that they put their monitor on the first hop from you in order to ensure being able to collect.
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]]> By: helpingmole http://www.iowaforedwards.com/campaigns/can-campaigns-read-instant-messages-and-emails-if-you-discuss-the-candidate/comment-page-1#comment-4180 helpingmole Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:52:59 +0000 http://www.iowaforedwards.com/campaigns/can-campaigns-read-instant-messages-and-emails-if-you-discuss-the-candidate#comment-4180 Due to the technical limitations & other issues I don't think it's possible for such a program to exist. Since the peer to peer nature of most of IM protocols it's very hard [virtually impossible] to track such amount of data in real time.<br><b>References : </b><br> Due to the technical limitations & other issues I don’t think it’s possible for such a program to exist. Since the peer to peer nature of most of IM protocols it’s very hard [virtually impossible] to track such amount of data in real time.
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