-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/27/2013 02:32 AM, Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
> Now, thats an interesting point! Once all email is encrypted, how > many mail providers would be interested in offering free service at > all, Another question might be, how many e-mail services would pull a Hushmail (i.e., tout transparent encryption after it leaves the browser (but is actually backdoored))? How many people /who are not us/ cared when that happened? > and whats their business model then? How brisk a business do the freemium mail providers do? One gig for free, fifty for $xus/month? > Is it still valuable enough to sell the graph of connects? Intel agencies have an interest in social graphs, which implies that the data is valuable to some people who are not intel agencies, so why not sell that data? I read an article yesterday about a company that mines Facebook and sells the data to insurance companies and suchlike for making service and rate determinations, so it is possible that this is already happening under a different context. http://www.celent.com/reports/using-social-data-claims-and-underwriting http://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2011/10/14/192987.htm http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2010/06/14/how-insurance-companies-will-influence-rates-based-on-your-tweets/ - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "Only shallow people know themselves." --Oscar Wilde -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlIcxu4ACgkQO9j/K4B7F8Hy2wCfchzF9uUS2oFLyr98ESzdabyZ uAQAoNWszAIPcrTNnOyUQXILJpoyzMRg =VAHQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
