Monday, March 31, 2014

The Changes in Government Snooping Are Just Eyewash for the Unwashed

So holds Bruce Schneier.

The government certainly doesn't want to make it harder for them to snoop on you. And neither do the major Internet players: Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, etc., etc.

I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of email correspondents that I have who have adopted encryption. It's easy enough to do, just download GNU Privacy Guard, or GPG4Win or pay for PGP, if you must. Thunderbird Email supports an addon called Enigmail that will run encryption.

But hardly anyone does it, trusting in security by anonymity, I guess.

If you want to communicate with some degree of anonymity, either use encryption or buy yourself one of these:

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2 comments:

  1. bob3/31/2014 5:40 PM

    And even if you are going to use a pen encryption is still a good idea.

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  2. Sevesteen3/31/2014 8:48 PM

    I'd update that to "use open source software with encryption". While the NSA may have corrupted Linux, they probably have corrupted most commercial software and encryption.

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