I think you meant "there is no guarantee" that email is encrypted.
You don't know if a provider is actually encrypting your mail unless you're doing this yourself. That's why there is no push. On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Laurelai <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/12/2011 10:33 AM, Christian Sciberras wrote: > > Well said! > > > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Daniel Sichel > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >In fact, law enforcement officials don?t even need a search warrant to >> >access private emails. >> >> In point of fact, nobody does, although acquiring this access is clearly >> easier for law enforcement. >> One of the burdens that the freedom the Internet brings, is the freedom. >> Your email is out there, typically unencrypted, available to anyone who >> can snatch the packets off the wire, >> Any ISP employee with appropriate read rights on a mail server. >> >> Take responsibility for your own email. Encrypt it if you must, but for >> heaven sakes, own the fact that it is publicly visible. >> >> If we do not take responsibility for our own email and whine about >> others reading it, than there will HAVE to be regulations by government >> to protect us. >> That's what government does. That's what it is SUPPOSED to do. So >> before we invite Godzilla to protect our email, how about we just man up >> and take responsibility ourselves? >> >> But that's just the idea of a bunch of dead white guys like Edmund >> Burke, John Adams and James Madison, and what do they know? >> >> >> Dan Sichel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. >> Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html >> Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > > Well there is no push to make snail-mail encrypted and lets face it most > peoples mailboxes don't have any sort of locking mechanisms and is available > to anyone with two hands and the malicious intent to steal someones mail > however the US Gov needs a warrant to intercept your physical mail, why does > it being online somehow make it different? Especially considering the US > Postal service keeps threatening to shut down, and this is due to the > increased popularity of *email*. Why this should be troubling is that they > consider email somehow different than physical mail when it comes to privacy > rights for no really good reason, and considering that one of the grievances > we had with England in the time of the revolutionary war was the government > intercepting mail for arbitrary reasons. This should make every American > citizen's hair stand on end. > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >
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