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.
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