[liberationtech] Why can’t email be secure? - Silent Circle Blog

[Fran Parker]

Perhaps I should have simply said interesting. ROFL

On Aug 25, 2013, at 12:54 PM, Brian Conley <brianc at smallworldnews.tv> wrote:

> This last bit is a straw man, in my opinion:
> 
> "The days where it was possible for two people to have a truly private conversation over email, if they ever existed, are long over."
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> If I don't want the existence of a conversation to be known about, I don't make a phone call, send a letter, start an IM, or send an email.
> 
> However, the idea that users don't consider sealed envelopes to contain private communication is just absurd. Our metadata is not the only thing to protect, however in this day and age, automated collation and storage of metadata is certainly worrisome.
> 
> I still believe there should be legal protections stating that communication between two individuals should be considered private and only those individuals should be in a position to share that information. Service providers now have technical access to the entire contents of our communications, whereas postal workers only had access to the metadata(send/return address). That doesn't mean we shouldn't have laws protecting the content of that communications and clarifying that service provider us only a transport mechanism and not a recipient of the communication.
> On Aug 25, 2013 9:41 AM, "LilBambi" <lilbambi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I thought this was very important.
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>> --snip--
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>> Why can’t email be secure? - Silent Circle Blog
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>> Posted on August 16, 2013 by louiskowolowski2013
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>> 
http://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/why-cant-email-be-secure/
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