Re: A secure government
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:25:25AM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: How about a publishing bot that creates a current and accessible db of randomly selected recent emails crossing the Internet alphabetized by sender name and email address? My guess is that if the scoundrels supplying the data cannot be found and the data cannot be removed an increasing number of people will begin to take their email privacy more seriously. Interesting idea. Implementation would be fairly trivial. The hard part would be getting samples from diferent locations. Or, you could fake emails, and have the vast majority of them be encrypted, as an example of the benefeit.
Re: A secure government
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:25:25AM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: How about a publishing bot that creates a current and accessible db of randomly selected recent emails crossing the Internet alphabetized by sender name and email address? My guess is that if the scoundrels supplying the data cannot be found and the data cannot be removed an increasing number of people will begin to take their email privacy more seriously. Interesting idea. Implementation would be fairly trivial. The hard part would be getting samples from diferent locations. Or, you could fake emails, and have the vast majority of them be encrypted, as an example of the benefeit.
Re: What email encryption is actually in use?
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:23:36AM -0800, Tim May wrote: - -- treat text as text, to be sent via whichever mail program one uses, or whichever chatroom software (not that encrypted chat rooms are likely...but who knows?), or whichever news reader software http://www.invisible.net is sort of an encrypted chatroom. -- Windows, Icons, Mice and Pointers. A jedi craves not these things.
Re: What email encryption is actually in use?
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:23:36AM -0800, Tim May wrote: - -- treat text as text, to be sent via whichever mail program one uses, or whichever chatroom software (not that encrypted chat rooms are likely...but who knows?), or whichever news reader software http://www.invisible.net is sort of an encrypted chatroom. -- Windows, Icons, Mice and Pointers. A jedi craves not these things.
