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the main issue is that any conversation in the internet gets saved. nothing is forgotten, ever. it might be encrypted, but that only delays reading it. you wan
by pinaceae 14y ago
the main issue is that any conversation in the internet gets saved. nothing is forgotten, ever. it might be encrypted, but that only delays reading it.
you want a safer way to communicate. use the telephone, non-voip. the content of your conversation is temporary, there is no record. if someone is not listening in to your conversation right now, no evidence in terms of content stays behind. if it would have been petraeus, all we would know that he had a lot of phone calls with his biographer....
- tsotha 14y ago>you want a safer way to communicate. use the telephone, non-voip. the content of your conversation is temporary, there is no record. You assume. There's no technical reason for this to be true, however. Telephone conversations are digitized and could easily be saved by the millions. I once worked at a military base where they saved every minute of every telephone conversation, and back then storage was a hell of a lot more expensive.
- 1337biz 14y agoI think it is save to assume, that if an intelligence service is putting the effort into intercepting your email communication, they are most likely willing to intercept your telephone communication as well. Voice recognition software has been around for ages, and mainstream consumer products (DragonSpeak, etc) have become surprisingly good. Sure, they could have used prepaid mobile phones or voice scramblers, but then again they also could have just accessed their secret email account(s) just from public access points.