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On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:00:55 +0000 Martijn Grooten <martijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:26:00PM +0000, NW wrote: > > I have been reading the replies with interest. Throughout history > > all governments have wanted to control their people. Now with the > > internet that is more difficult, and they don't like it. So they > > are trying to control that too > > > > And any atrocity such as the recent one in France gives them a good > > excuse to shout anti-terrorism as the reason they have to do > > something. The problem is that they don't seem to have a clue about > > how it all works. On the other hand, the criminals do know. > > I think the lack of a clue is the main problem. I do think most > politicians are genuine when they say they only want to be able to > read the traffic of suspected terrorists. > > What they don't understand is that > a) this will hurt the IT industry as foreigners will not want to use > UK-based services and many Brits will also be looking for alternatives > abroad; > b) unless you start doing censorship of the kind they do in China, > this is simply not going to work as alternatives will be easy to find; > c) intelligence agencies have time and time again been found to abuse > the powers they have. > > On top of that, I think that privacy is a fundamental right. But I > don't think that's going to be a winning argument; hence I think we > should focus on a) - c). > > > By the way, re encrypted email, has anyone looked at protonmail? > > I haven't. I know they had received criticism last year when they had > made some basic mistakes, but with CERN and MIT behind it, I'm > confident they will have fixed that. > > Keep in mind that it takes two to encrypt email, so just using > protonmail will only make your emails marginally more secure. > > Martijn. > As I understand it, if both you and the recipient use protonmail, then emails will be automatically encrypted before being sent, and will be readable to the recipient only. Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq