On Friday 08 October 2021 14:02:32 dep wrote: > said Michael: > | Nik’s quote, “Please do not email me anything that you are not > | comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA” is extremely relevant to > | the last point. > > Anything that's not end-to-end encrypted -- *including headers* -- is > being harvested by anyone who really wants it. The best we can do > right now, alas, is the rule used by burglar-prevention systems: You > can't make your home invulnerable, but you can make it a little harder > to break in to than the next house over is. > > My ISP is a sneak-thief whore outfit. I use a VPN and ProtonMail to > confound them, to make getting my information more trouble than it's > worth. But I have no illusions that anything I say remains private > once it's squirted out by ProtonMail to the addresses of my dimwitted > correspondents who take no precautions, who think that gmail or yahoo > mail or their own ISPs mail. Someday, maybe soon, there will be a > company that loses a lawsuit because its genuis managers thought that > accepting gmail's enticements was a good idea. That can't happen soon enough for me, it would be an instant game changer. And I've very pointedly let my congress critters know my thoughts on section 230's protection of jerks like FB et all. > But until then, we do our best and if we have confidential information > to impart we do not do it by email or any other online method if the > recipient is a nonserious person. At this point it's as if the phone > company announced it would listen in to all calls and capitalize on > anything it found that's of use. > -- > dep > > Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album > Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at > https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinity >desktop.org Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
