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If I encrypt an email and send it over the internet would my ISP become liable?

• matheusmoreira 6y ago
  The host is required only to "assist" the authorities so I don't think they'd be liable for that. The encryption process was under your control and short of disabling your internet access or cracking your machine there's nothing they can do about it. If they encrypted your email themselves on your behalf and threw the key away so that authorities couldn't get to it, they might be liable. Now that I think about it, sending malicious updates to a router might be one way they could be required to assist the authorities in their quest for lawful access...
  • carapace 6y ago
    Cheers! I use a web-hosted email provider that offers e2e encryption (done client-side with a Java app I think.) I don't actually encrypt any emails in practice. But it would be defeating the entire purpose if a service like this could read my encrypted emails (for the authorities or anyone else). Thanks for taking the time to reply.