Gene writes: > As the situation now stands, an encrypted email is a bright red flag > in front of the bull in a china shop, so they will expend a lot of cpu > cycles to read it because if it didn't contain sensitive data, it > wouldn't be encrypted in the first place.
While I find the behavior of the intelligence agencies morally repugnant as a practical matter they are not part of my threat model. > The encryption insures that it will be read... It *may* be scanned by software. A lot more goes into the decision to attempt to decrypt an encrypted message than the mere fact that it is encrypted. Most likely it results in an addition to a database of IPs known to emit encrypted messages. It almost certainly won't be read. > ...then a small maybe that it will be delivered to the > addressee. It will already have been delivered. > If its a trigger msg, you can bet it will be printed for later perusal > by a grand jury and the digital copy will be delivered to /dev/null. It will mark the sender and receiver for investigation. Why would they tell their enemies that they are reading their mail? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA