Gaunty
Thank you for being one of the illuminati.
A previous post speculated on the enterprise CASA could muster.
Whether it comes to dirty tricks,
or protecting it's own, it is still quite impressive, as BB has discovered.
However, I did not allege the said spook worked for CASA, nor did the said spook discuss his past.
When certain people visit certain restricted sites in Australia on a regular basis, it may be assumed
that possibly, they may be amongst the inner circle.
Given that the potential spook resides in that den of infamy, YBTL,
a little licence is permissable
when one learns that a certain CASA miscreant from YBTL has gained access to personal emails,
it is not drawing too long a bow to conclude that special skills may have been employed to intercept emails.
As you have knowledge that they were aquired from a disgruntled employee, that cancels the supposition.
Your comments on clandestine internet activity mirrors my experience,
you (and other readers) may be interested in a no-charge facility available from Norton / Symantec.
If you have Norton Internet Security installed,
you can download and subscribe free to a Norton/Symantec product called "Deep Sight Extractor"
This product interfaces with NIS and Symantec extract statistical data
regarding full details of all hacking attempts on your computer.
This project is aimed at identifying areas of high hacking activity and tracks the source.
You do not normally get advice on what has been determined, but besides some of the fed activity in Oz,
there is a large amount of hacking emanating from Bulgaria, India and Korea, things most of us are aware of.
Symantec will collate the data, esp IP identifying features, and improve their product to recognise known hacking IP's.
If you doubt any of this, I challenge any of you to disable your anti virus and firewall products for a week
and see if you haven't been probed, infiltrated and exploited or contaminated with a trojan horse, virus or worm.
anyway, believe it or not, there are some nasty things happening,
and the good guys in casa are not really able to do anything about it.
The nasty ones are compromising the good guys in CASA, the rot is deep and widespread.
However, there are many committed to exposing the crims, and they will, eventually. (and the upward trail in their network as well.)