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Re: Search and Seizure of Email


From: Christian Sciberras <uuf6429 () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:17:04 +0200

I think you meant "there is no guarantee" that email is encrypted.

You don't know if a provider is actually encrypting your mail unless you're
doing this yourself.

That's why there is no push.





On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Laurelai <laurelai () oneechan org> wrote:

 On 10/12/2011 10:33 AM, Christian Sciberras wrote:

Well said!



On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Daniel Sichel <daniels () ponderosatel com>wrote:

In fact, law enforcement officials don?t even need a search warrant to
access private emails.

In point of fact, nobody does, although acquiring this access is clearly
easier for law enforcement.
One of the burdens that the freedom the Internet brings, is the freedom.
Your email is out there, typically unencrypted, available to anyone who
can snatch the packets off the wire,
Any ISP employee with appropriate read rights on a mail server.

Take responsibility for your own email. Encrypt it if you must, but for
heaven sakes, own the fact that it is publicly visible.

If we do not take responsibility for our own email and whine about
others reading it,  than there will HAVE to be regulations by government
to protect us.
That's what government does.  That's what it is SUPPOSED to do.  So
before we invite Godzilla to protect our email, how about we just man up
and take responsibility ourselves?

But that's just the idea of a bunch of dead white guys like Edmund
Burke, John Adams and James Madison, and what do they know?


Dan Sichel

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 Well there is no push to make snail-mail encrypted and lets face it most
peoples mailboxes don't have any sort of locking mechanisms and is available
to anyone with two hands and the malicious intent to steal someones mail
however the US Gov needs a warrant to intercept your physical mail, why does
it being online somehow make it different? Especially considering the US
Postal service keeps threatening to shut down, and this is due to the
increased popularity of *email*. Why this should be troubling is that they
consider email somehow different than physical mail when it comes to privacy
rights for no really good reason, and considering that one of the grievances
we had with England in the time of the revolutionary war was the government
intercepting mail for arbitrary reasons. This should make every American
citizen's hair stand on end.

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