I loved the defense offered in
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/us/nsa-calls-violations-of-privacy-minuscule.html,
that
2776 mistakes in a year were nothing to get excited over, they're making 20
million queries a month.  I wonder when we were going to find out that
number in the normal course of events.

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On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> All that being said, I do use SSL/TLS for my e-mail client (T-Bird via
> IMAP) to a regional (SWCP) mail service.   This (probably) means that
> anyone intercepting (sniffing my wireless, tapping my first mile provider,
> backbone, etc.) will only get medium-high entropy bitstreams.
>
> But I don't encrypt my hard drive, nor does, I presume SWCP.  I don't
> insist on encrypted conversations with anyone, so I'm only one tiny step
> more "secure" than I would be if I didn't use SSL/TLS with my ISP mail
> server.
>
> I suppose if we all insist on encrypted e-mail as the standard we increase
> the size of the pile of envelopes with needles in them.  It might help
> some... but this feels a lot like an arms race.
>
> - STeve
>
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