XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.freeware, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   XPost: comp.mobile.ipad   
   From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   arlen holder wrote:   
   > How often do each of all the nntp server admins_change_  their algorithms?   
      
   It doesn't matter whether they change their encryption or not.  The   
   schema they use is satisfactory to them and to their users.   
      
   The fact that you think something else is not important to them.  Or me.   
      
   If you 'fear' for some reason or other that 'someone' or some thing will   
   discover your connecting IP from an nntp message you post, then you   
   should do whatever you must, such as VPN to mitigate that fear.   
      
   I'm saying that MOST conversations like this one in this group do not   
   need to have the connecting or provider IP hidden from the nntp admin,   
   who can certainly decrypt the NPH or examine his logs.   
      
   If I were doing something in which I might have an adversary, such as   
   downloading copyrighted material, I would not want my adversary to be   
   able to discover my connecting IP very easily, so I would have to do   
   something about that such as VPN and/or Tor.   
      
   However, if I am dl/ing such as open source linux .iso/s, then it   
   doesn't matter to me if the torrent pool members have access to my   
   connecting IP.   
      
   Maybe if you are rude or offensive to those on usenet with whom you have   
   conversations you might acquire more adversaries than someone who isn't.   
      
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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