On 2025-09-02, Teemu Likonen <[email protected]> wrote: > > * 2025-09-01 19:50:29-0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> One datapoint you might find interesting... > > It is. Thanks. > >> The biggest pain point came when searching emails. As you probably know, >> most encryption schemes break sorting and searching.
Another data point is the vast majority of Internet users are not and will not encrypt their emails, because it's too complicated and they don't see the utility of doing so. Living under an authoritarian regime (let's say China), encrypted correspondence must be one of the biggest red flags ever. I'll let our Chinese members contradict me if I'm wrong. If the distances were not so great, I'd venture you'd be better off using carrier pigeons. A simple postcard to a Norwegian in plain text would probably elicit little interest from the authorities at large. At any rate, the signal to noise ratio in these modern times is now so low that it is hardly worth anyone's time to look for the former in the brouhaha of the latter, in the absence of prior and specific knowledge.
