Perhaps I should have simply said interesting. ROFL On Aug 25, 2013, at 12:54 PM, Brian Conley <[email protected]> wrote:
> This last bit is a straw man, in my opinion: > > "The days where it was possible for two people to have a truly private > conversation over email, if they ever existed, are long over." > > If I don't want the existence of a conversation to be known about, I don't > make a phone call, send a letter, start an IM, or send an email. > > However, the idea that users don't consider sealed envelopes to contain > private communication is just absurd. Our metadata is not the only thing to > protect, however in this day and age, automated collation and storage of > metadata is certainly worrisome. > > I still believe there should be legal protections stating that communication > between two individuals should be considered private and only those > individuals should be in a position to share that information. Service > providers now have technical access to the entire contents of our > communications, whereas postal workers only had access to the > metadata(send/return address). That doesn't mean we shouldn't have laws > protecting the content of that communications and clarifying that service > provider us only a transport mechanism and not a recipient of the > communication. > On Aug 25, 2013 9:41 AM, "LilBambi" <[email protected]> wrote: >> I thought this was very important. >> >> --snip-- >> >> Why can’t email be secure? - Silent Circle Blog >> >> Posted on August 16, 2013 by louiskowolowski2013 >> >> http://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/why-cant-email-be-secure/ > >> -- >> Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. >> Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, >> change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at >> [email protected]. > -- > Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. > Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected].
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