The virus argument is to online life as the terrorist argument is to offline life. Everybody useds it as a cover to get at you for their own purposes. Recently

The virus argument is to online life as the terrorist argument is to offline life. Everybody useds it as a cover to get at you for their own purposes. Recently, our glorious government here in Germany decided that there should be a new, secure way of online communication called De-Mail, implemented by the usual suspects (ISPs and the like). Secure means end-to-end encryption, right? Wrrronk! They encrypt the transport to and from the servers, but decrypt and reencrypt the data on the server, "to scan for viruses". Because viruses are really the most pressing problem today.