From:	jaimie.nicholson@********.otago.ac.nz (Jaimie Nicholson)
Subject:	Reading private mail
Date:	Sat, 15 Jun 1996 14:24:41 +1200

>> Monitor overall load? Maybe. Where it went? I dont think so.

>No, It's more like "That chunk of data went off throught that SAN. Probably a
>message."

What about if you compromise the receiver's end? If you really want to read
someone's "*****Private" messages, couldn't you just put a tap in the line
just before their computer/telecom/whatever the hell they're using? Or in
the junction box thingy (that must be somewhere in the communications
system), if you can't tap fibre-optic cables directly. This procedure is
what I assumed was happening when the Renraku decker monitored some of
Ronin's mail, just before he was captured.

PLAYTHING OF A CRUEL GOD
JAIMIE NICHOLSON