On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:04:51PM -0700, Alberto Treviño wrote:
> 
> I'm sure we would all like to have privacy.  The reality of electronic 
> communications is otherwise.  But again, if you are sending sensitive 
> information via email, then encrypt the email.  Don't think that because its 
> BYU it won't be monitored.  Your ISP is going to monitor it, and all the 
> ISPs between BYU and your ISP are going to monitor it.  That's just life 
> today.

Thanks for this practical summary.

Let's turn this discussion in a productive direction.  How do we
actually get email to be encrypted?  I would love to have all of my
incoming and outgoing emails be encrypted, but how can I actually do
this?  Remember that most people will never use GPG.

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Andrew McNabb
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