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To the kind of people that think encrypted email is important, being "compelled by a warrant" to break the encryption is exactly what they wanted to protect aga
by gcr 14y ago
To the kind of people that think encrypted email is important, being "compelled by a warrant" to break the encryption is exactly what they wanted to protect against in the first place.
- superuser2 14y ago> To the kind of people that think encrypted email is important Are you really okay with the police reading your email at any time for any reason? I would understand your attitude if email was already protected and encryption could only serve to hide from search warrants and wiretap orders, but that's not the case. The government can and does read our email whenever it pleases. How are you okay with this?
- duaneb 14y agoI didn't read that tone at all. I think he was just pointing out that the people most likely to have access to mail (outside of Google itself) would be the government, so why bother encrypting at all if a warrant undoes it?
- gcr 14y agoWhy did you infer that I was okay with this?
- superuser2 14y agoYou're implying that the only people who think email encryption is important are criminals (or sketchy enough that there's probably cause). I'm not a criminal, but I don't want the government reading my email.
- duaneb 13y agoNot all warrants issued are for criminals, just suspects, and there's nothing you can do to prevent against being a suspect.