| gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 19 Apr 2002 00:57:16 -0400 |
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:27:51AM -0400, Doug Crompton wrote: > Who is going to read this email anyway? Someone taping files at the ISP? > The internet police? A kid in Germany? Well, we're not too concerned about PLUG being read, obviously, or we wouldn't be passing it through SMTP in the clear. There are certainly topics I might like to discuss which I would prefer only a certain set of people can read. (I've done so in the past, encrypting to each of a group of people, but it was more of a one-off thing.) "Someone taping files at the ISP" is, quite probably, the US Gov't these days. Not my ISP (or so they claim), but quite probably numerous of the recipients of my email. Or any of a variety of other governments, if you communicate with folks with an Internet connection in another nation (which I do pretty frequently). I definitely say things I wouldn't want the government to know, necessarily. Especially if they had chosen to be listening to *me* explicitly. As far as the kid in Germany, personal history dictates that I'm more likely to be encrypting messages *to* him than to hide from him. ;^> > Now on the other hand I think we should form a posse and go out and shoot > everyone that sends junk mail! Maybe I should be on some pills too! Hrm. Best not to talk about my employer then, I guess. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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