Hi Trevor.
I agree that this is an issue, but what should GPG be good for in a
public mailinglist everybody might join without any barrier?
Anyone from any government, regime, rebell group, terrorists group or
whatever wherever and in whose point of view ever might join the list
and therefore get the decrypted emails.
Using GPG here does not keep the individuals reading/writing mails safe
as long as you use E-Mail as a medium and don't close the group to a
trusted p2p group (where everybody trusts everybody to exchange a key).
Of course:
Nothing refering to individuals in any case where that might be an issue
should be posted publicly over the Mailinglist, but encryption in
general would strictly contradict the openness of everybody-can-join,
which is one core feature of the osm mailing list system, this list
included.
regards
Peter
Am 28.01.2013 17:37, schrieb Trevor Ellermann:
Hey All,
As HOT talks about getting involved in Syria I want to take a moment
to talk about security. Email is unencrypted by default and very easy
to intercept. The Syrian regime is known to be snooping on all
internet traffic in Syria. They have arrested, tortured and killed
people and in some cases their families based on emails they have
intercepted.
I want to highlight the public-ness of this email list. You don't even
have to intercept an email to read it and with the blog post, we
likely have brought attention to it. So before you post anything at
all to this list about Syria, please think first about the safety of
the people on the ground over there.
Here is a page with information on basic computer security. I highly
recommend that everyone at least glance at it and hopefully learn how
to use gpg.
http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/security.html
A separate email account for encrypted communications is sometimes
preferred. I recommend riseup for that (https://riseup.net/en).
If you have any questions, thoughts or comments please don't hesitate to ask.
--T
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