[liberationtech] to encrypt or not to encrypt?

Eleanor Saitta ella at dymaxion.org
Fri Jun 21 16:18:03 PDT 2013


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On 2013.06.21 17.38, phryk wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 10:28:51 -0700 Martin Uecker
> <uecker at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 
>> - email is used a lot (also for important stuff)
> 
> As far as I can tell, non-techy persons mostly use their email
> accounts for registering at various websites, online-shopping and
> that sort of thing, not active communication. I think the most
> private stuff goes through IM, a lot of that through sites like
> Facebook or programs like WhatsApp.

...and for any kind of business-related organizational work, much of
the time, wherein you do get plenty of actual high-value information.
 Because we're unlikely to move businesses off email any time soon
(and I include NGO- and much of organized activist-land here), we do
in the end need to do something for it.

E.

- -- 
Ideas are my favorite toys.
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