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/
> 
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