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That gives me the urge to display suspicious behaviour just to make them lose time. As I live in France, it shouldn't be so risky yet. Seriously, if more peop

That gives me the urge to display suspicious behaviour just to make them lose time. As I live in France, it shouldn't be so risky yet. Seriously, if more people where actively protecting their privacy, it would no longer be suspicious to encrypt one's email. But some people need to do it first.

shrikant 15y ago
> That gives me the urge to display suspicious behaviour just to make them lose time. I suspect that if you deliberately acted suspicious enough to make them lose time, you'd lose a not insignificant amount of time as well. And this is the sort of thinking that the "suspicion detection" powers-that-be quite possibly want to encourage - where personal convenience trumps a [imho, perfectly natural] desire for privacy.
yread 15y ago
yeah just setup couple hundred emails and have them send random files to each other. That should keep them busy :)
mjwalshe 15y ago
France used to ban crypto back in 95/96 I remember we had to make huge changes to BT's Intranet to disable certain parts of it from collegues in France as we where not allowed to uses encyption to acess via a dialup service.
stfu 15y ago
Seriously, if more people where actively protecting their privacy, it would no longer be suspicious to encrypt one's email. This is an excellent point! At least open source OS systems should make encryption the standard option. But even Ubuntu seems unable to pull this off and more or less in stagnation on this - despite EFF's efforts ( https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/help-bring-disk-encryption-ubuntu-live-cd https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/help-bring-disk-encryp... ).
- spindritf 15y ago
  Firstly, Ubuntu Alternate CD has an excellent installer, it's not text-based as in you have to type in commands, or compile anything, it's just like the Windows XP installer, except for all the sideloading of drivers. You can set up an encrypted LVM, or whatever partitioning scheme you like, the default settings also seemed very sensible so you don't even have to touch anything. Secondly, regular Ubuntu installer offers to encrypt your home dir.

shrikant 15y ago

> That gives me the urge to display suspicious behaviour just to make them lose time. I suspect that if you deliberately acted suspicious enough to make them lose time, you'd lose a not insignificant amount of time as well. And this is the sort of thinking that the "suspicion detection" powers-that-be quite possibly want to encourage - where personal convenience trumps a [imho, perfectly natural] desire for privacy.

yread 15y ago

yeah just setup couple hundred emails and have them send random files to each other. That should keep them busy :)

mjwalshe 15y ago

France used to ban crypto back in 95/96 I remember we had to make huge changes to BT's Intranet to disable certain parts of it from collegues in France as we where not allowed to uses encyption to acess via a dialup service.

stfu 15y ago

Seriously, if more people where actively protecting their privacy, it would no longer be suspicious to encrypt one's email. This is an excellent point! At least open source OS systems should make encryption the standard option. But even Ubuntu seems unable to pull this off and more or less in stagnation on this - despite EFF's efforts ( https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/help-bring-disk-encryption-ubuntu-live-cd https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/help-bring-disk-encryp... ).

spindritf 15y ago
Firstly, Ubuntu Alternate CD has an excellent installer, it's not text-based as in you have to type in commands, or compile anything, it's just like the Windows XP installer, except for all the sideloading of drivers. You can set up an encrypted LVM, or whatever partitioning scheme you like, the default settings also seemed very sensible so you don't even have to touch anything. Secondly, regular Ubuntu installer offers to encrypt your home dir.