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insecure	Sep 10 2005, 10:31 AM
Elite member Posts: 381 Group: Trusted Member Member #10 Joined: September 9, 2005	Sorry for getting your country wrong. It makes a pleasant change to talk to someone who isn't from the USA. :-) As for governments, well, as you say, they're going to do it anyway whether it's right or wrong. There is, of course, something we can do about it, which is this: to use encryption ourselves wherever possible in email, and to encourage others to do the same. It doesn't even have to be strong encryption. Any old encryption will do! (Obviously, strong encryption is better for some purposes.) The more different ways in which people encrypt their emails, the better. I sometimes think we should set up a peer-to-peer email network which slides encrypted emails into random junk that is being broadcast on a fairly regular basis (to make traffic analysis much, much harder). Not to make life easier for terrorists (after all, if they have anything at all about them they are already using more secure channels, and if they haven't then they will get caught some other way anyway), but to carry a message to our servants that we don't want them looking through our keyholes.


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