Comments on: It’s A Message Problem … Again

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:58:32 +0000

Too many people have given up the fight, so it’s hard to get them to push back.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 08:08:37 +0000

Bryan, back when I cared, I would do the key exchange in person. Now… eh. Nobody seems to care, so I don’t either. The end result is that we’re all screwed. So it goes.

– Badtux the Defeatist Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 20:06:07 +0000

I used to do the key exchange on diskette sent First Class mail. It made people much happier.

Sooner or later, someone will create a data haven, just like the tax havens that currently exist. It would be a nice niche for a small country with few natural resources.

Zero does this crap to ‘prove he’s tough’, and doesn’t care about anything else. This will be a huge part of his ‘legacy’, but he doesn’t seem to understand that.

Another 8 years wasted by the US government.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:20:30 +0000

Well… It is a message problem. 😉 But he has it backwards. He’s the one not getting the message! (And what a surprise…)

Same old, same old…

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:00:09 +0000

Of course, the fact that a mail provider is overseas is not a guarantee either. The EU may have the most stringent privacy laws on the planet but there’s a big caveat to them — they apply to private citizens invading the privacy of other private citizens, not to governments invading the privacy of their citizens. The only reason action to take, when it involves email, is to either a) assume it is being read, or b) PGP-encrypt it with a public key that was transmitted via a secure channel from the other end (to prevent man in the middle attacks). Or with your public key if you want to insure that only you can read it :).

Personally, I’ve declared defeat in the privacy wars. Nobody seems to care that their email is being read by the government, they value convenience over privacy, so… (shrug). Don’t worry. Be happy. La la la la la. Sigh.