Re: [vox] Time for a refresher talk on PGP/GPG? :)

[Ken Bloom <kMAPSabloom@ucdavis.edu>]

On 2004.06.30 16:04, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> Appeals Circuit Ruling: ISPs Can Read E-Mail
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/30/2014242&mode=nocomment
>
>   The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (covering  
> Massachusetts,
>   Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island) has ruled that e-mail
>   providers are not violating the law by reading users' e-mail without
>   the user's consent. The decision finds that the Wiretap Act does not
>   cover interception of communications where the communications are
>   being stored, not transmitted.
>
>
> Interesting, Chris DiBona talks about how it's odd so many people use
> things
> like SSH and SCP, yet still use plaintext e-mail.  I'm a culprit of
> this,
> as well. :^/
>
> What About E-mail Security?
> http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2004-06-23-015-26-OP-SW-NT
>
>   Ever used driftnet? I go to a lot of conferences, and one thing I
>   find myself doing while speaking is checking how engaged the audience
>   is by sniffing the 802.11b traffic in the room. Whether this is a
>   measure of how absorbing I am or, to put it delicately, how
>   self-absorbed the conference attendee is, is an open question. That
>   said, it always is surprising to me how little encrypted traffic is
>   flowing on the very open Internet.
I use GPG - it's other people who don't, so all I can really use GPG for  
is signing messages. (And even then, what's the point?)

Once upon a time I had to grand a Debian developer access to my machine  
so he could try to debug an unreproducable bug - I used GPG encryption  
then, to send him the login information. But that was only one situation.

--Ken Bloom

P.S. I'll take encryption more seriously when you tell me where I can  
find vox@lists.lugod.org's public key.

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