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> So a government that would love to read your mail would do better to realize that they will only be able to read the uninteresting mail and for the rest of it
by ChrisKnott 5y ago
> So a government that would love to read your mail would do better to realize that they will only be able to read the uninteresting mail and for the rest of it they'll be staring at white noise
This is the crux of your argument, but it's false. E2EE has been available for decades but it wasn't used widely, by everyone including criminals, until it was pushed as the default.
- jacquesm 5y agoStrong encryption has been available for decades as well, but it wasn't used widely until HTTPS and encrypted email. What is your point? That availability doesn't equate use? That's obvious. But now that it is widely used nothing has really changed, we're back where we started: traffic analysis and humint, which is not a bad basis for an investigation or an infiltration op. It's not as if all of the old volume of mail was steamed open and read or everybody's TV equipped with monitoring equipment. Even libraries did not track who read what (though they did track who borrowed what).