[Herts] I'm not paranoid
Cliff Deamer
cliff.g3ndc at btinternet.com
Wed Feb 21 09:46:46 GMT 2007
Hi Steve, Certainly sounds interesting!
Cliff
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 16:29 +0000, Steve Clark wrote:
> ...but big brother is watching/listening/reading
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1344200
>
> Even though I don't have anything to hide I would still prefer to use
> encryption on my email, instant messaging and VOIP. Some of these rely
> on the other party having taken the time to set it up, but most of my
> contacts have not done so.
>
> If anyone wants to discuss encryption and/or sign keys at a meeting I am
> happy to do so.
>
> It hasn't happened yet, but I wonder if the sp*mmers will ever try
> scraping the keyservers and sending encrypted mails. That would at least
> get past the content filters. I do wonder if they have extracted
> addresses from there, and a quick search seems to imply they have been
> doing so for a while
>
> http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2004-December/024033.html
>
> It's not viable to encrypt to mailing lists, but I'll keep signing and
> hope the list server doesn't change anything and invalidate the
> signature as it sometimes does.
>
> Don't have nightmares
>
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