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As usual, some well-meaning and knowledgeable folks are going to have to take the lead on this. Kind of like the free software movement. Most people won't kno

• digitalengineer 13y ago
  But most companies do. There's an opportunity right there. I'm sure we'll see standard encrypted communications in a few years.
  • Joeboy 13y ago
    Indeed, I think it may be problematic that the arguments for encryption have tended to focus on dissidents and people with dramatic reasons for needing privacy. Large companies with mundane privacy expectations might have been a better bet in terms of spurring uptake.
    • Zikes 13y ago
      That would still require a large amount of trust in those companies and that they are not breached or subpoenaed, though. It would not be far-fetched at the moment to imagine that Google has been explicitly barred from implementing a feature in GMail that would prevent them from being able to provide the contents of a person's mailbox to the NSA or FBI if requested.
      • Zigurd 13y ago
        > It would not be far-fetched at the moment to imagine that Google has been explicitly barred from implementing a feature in GMail that would prevent them from being able to provide the contents of a person's mailbox to the NSA or FBI if requested. Indeed you have to wonder why not one major email provider has offered a paid option for secure mail. As others have pointed out, that still leaves meta-data in the open. But secure-payload plus pseudonymous, deniable identities makes targeting difficult and unreliable. That would be a big improvement.