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I wonder if that would actually work against them. Assuming the government has some system that is reading all emails sent to country x, they may specifically

I wonder if that would actually work against them. Assuming the government has some system that is reading all emails sent to country x, they may specifically sniff emails that match a certain signature... such as one that was encrypted. Its probably less revealing to setup a code around every day language and problems.

davidbanham 15y ago
That's a good argument for sending the actual emails in plaintext, but it doesn't explain why the storage drives weren't heavily encrypted.
- bcaulf 15y ago
  That's exactly right. I am dumbfounded that they didn't protect everything.