From: Florian Echtler (echtlerin.tum.de)
Date: Tue Nov 13 2007 - 03:59:53 CST

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> If I read the law correctly, it requires retention of "what IP
> connected to another IP" and "which phone number called where." It
> doesn't bother retaining the URL called (my German is rusty, so I may
> be a little off in my interpretation). Connecting to a random IP on a
> random open port (80 and 443, for example) would be a good start to
> accomplish the goal creating chatter. The issue is that the search
> terms to find those ports could lead to connecting to a site that
> increases your profile against general background chatter, even as it
> is raised with random connection traffic.
As a native German speaker, allow me to clarify: with respect to IP
communication, the law mandates saving the following information for 6
months:

- which customer was assigned which IP for what timespan
- sender mail address, receiver mail address and sender IP for each mail
- in case of VOIP: caller and callee phone number and IP address

So it wouldn't make much sense to create connection noise on a TCP or
HTTP basis, as this stuff isn't logged. I think one should rather
concentrate on generating email noise in this regard.

Yours, Florian

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