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Who's
Reading Your Mail? |
Rants/Raves ArchivesAPRIL 30, 2006 To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt: That is the Question Judging by my mail, a lot of computer users are concerned about privacy. They're furious at the idea that the NSA or other government agencies are reading their email. They don't even think their employers who pay for the computers, software and network bandwidth should have the right to monitor what they're saying. They point out that opening someone else's postal mail is a federal crime and advocate similar laws regarding e-mail and electronic documents. Yet, also based on what they tell me, very few of them are doing anything to try to actually protect that privacy. Only a handful say they use encryption to keep what they send over the network confidential. Why is that? When asked, some respond that encryption is too difficult, that they don't want to have to buy or install additional software, that it's too much trouble. Many others answer that they'd like to encrypt their messages and documents, but are afraid doing so would "red flag" those communications. It's a little ironic when the very technologies that would protect your privacy are ones that we're scared to use for fear of coming to the attention of those who would want to invade our privacy in the first place.
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