Can ISPs be trusted?

[Alan Cox]

The question is as much "can they ISP employees be trusted"

Most of the tools assume not for anything critical

- Firewalls on PCs are user not ISP managed
- SSL uses digital signatures so that if your ISP or its staff try to
  like about name to address mappings you get warned
- ssh uses crypto and host keys and the like

There are plenty of people in the ISP world who can earn good money from
installing loggers for people without needing to worry about the
government ;)