Jim writes, > This (U.S. court challenge) actually seems a little more hopeful than > individual encryption actions (most people won't do this stuff) ...
Maybe. Although I respect this opinion, personal responsibility matters. Indeed Jim, you and anyone can have state-of-the-art email privacy right now, without doing anything radically difficult or special. If you use a fairly modern browser and use Google Gmail with this browser. Your email will be sent & received with forward private encryption from the browser. If you send your email to another free Gmail account and they also use a modern browser then ALL the email will be strongly encrypted ALL the way. Microsoft Outlook will also implement a forward privacy, apparently soon. It won't matter who or what listens unless they can break the encryption. And right now breaking https takes time and processing grunt, and is very unlikely for domestic and small/medium business communications. With your normal virus checking and a deleted browser history for your win computer anyway, this is about as good privacy as it currently gets. Doing such is hardly onerous. But will certainly agree with the rest of your Link email. > or a quaint demand that > government surveillance just stop. Surveillance will become increasingly > easier, smarter and normal over time as we become surrounded by smarter > interacting systems. These systems have benefits but they are prone to > misuse, on purpose or though zealous incompetence. It seems much better to > me to develop that there are baseline rules of what is acceptable and what > is not - and back it up with some serious/extreme penalties for > transgressions - rather than imagining that world should or could revert to > some mythological pre-Internet age of information naivety. > > I'm not sure about this but I also appear to have a different scale of harm > to most people of organisations that might be tracking me: I'd put the NSA > somewhere near the bottom. Off the top of my head, something like: > criminal organisations (clearly the worst), random shadowy uncontrolled > companies, big name companies with a brand to support, the NSA (etc), the > Australian government. The NSA appear to have achieved about nothing with > their zillion dollar surveillance operation except pissing a lot of people > off and promoting privacy awareness. > > - Jim > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > Link@mailman.anu.edu.au > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link Message sent using MelbPC WebMail Server _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
