You're looking at it from a technical point of view. Technically, you're very right. Of course it's wide open to be read. But think off all those cop dramas you've seen (if you watch those sorts of things) where they go on about how "it's a federal offence to open someone else's mail". To the average person (certainly above a certain age threshold), their mail is a sacred, secret thing, and they think email works the same. They shouldn't think that, obviously. For as long as I've been using email, I've always known about and used the "postcard vs. closed envelope" analogy of exactly how private email is (not). But the average newspaper-reading, cop drama watching person probably hasn't heard that, or isn't listening (again, they just think all their communications are sacred and protected by some law which clearly doesn't exist).
More people should watch Criminal Minds and see how easy it is for Garcia to poke around all their email/phone/etc records and realize that has probably turned out to be one of the most realistic parts of that show. ;-) On 7 January 2014 12:44, Juan Alberto Cirez <jaci...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greg, > This is what I don't quite understand: if regular http traffic has always > been open which gave rise to search engines to mine, index and archive this > open sourced data...then why is it a surprise that SMTP/POP traffic, which > until very recently was also open by default, is also mined, indexed and > archived? This is patently obvious... > On 2014-01-07 12:35 PM, "Greg King" <wgk...@shaw.ca> wrote: > >> This is an interesting article on the depths the government has gone to >> intercept email and the potential future of email data mining. The fact >> that one provider chose to shut down his operation rather than comply makes >> you wonder about the rest. >> >> Article is available online at ITinCanadaOnline - IT in Canada November >> 2013 >> Read it now: http://itincanadaonline.uberflip.com/i/230214/8 >> >> Happy new year - (looks like 1984 arrived, just a little late). >> >> There must now be a market for personal privacy solutions. >> >> Greg >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> clug-talk@clug.ca >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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