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.
-- rec -- 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 > > > ==============================**============================== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/**listinfo/friam_redfish.com<http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> >
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