[tde-users] Re: Change to forum software? (was TDE Matrix.org room?)

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. 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/