Re: Standing Up Against German Laws - Project HayNeedle

[johan beisser <jb () caustic org>]

On Nov 13, 2007, at 12:39 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:

> Instead of creating noise, one should fix the problem of sending out
> plaintext email, and encourage people to use email encryption such as
> Enigma for Thunderbird. Encrypt IM conversations with OTR, and via
> other ways pro-actively protect ones own privacy. That is a real
> structural solution. Don't blame others for not using an envelope  
> around
> your own communication.

Actually, that's not really part of the issue. The logs don't contain  
context, just who/where/when. While encryption will prevent (one  
hopes) the capability of recovering context, who you talked to is not  
kept private or otherwise secret.