On Mar 3, 2015, at 7:31 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> This is definitely public information from the Snowden leaks. There >> is also quite a bit of information about other governments doing >> similar things. Here's one example article: > > If all encrypted traffic is deemed suspicious, then 99.9999999% of the > suspicious set -- Amazon transactions, Google searches, SMTP transfers, > instant messaging, OkCupid profiles, iTunes purchases, and more -- is > totally clean. You'd have statistically better odds by arresting random > people on suspicion of murder. The policy would be completely > pants-on-head absurd. > > This leads to a different question: "Is it more likely that this is the > real pants-on-head absurd policy, or that the _Forbes_ journo has > profoundly misunderstood the subject?" > > Just because something's been published doesn't mean it should be > trusted. Bring your brain -- and when someone tells you something that > supports your worldview, look at that thing hard and twice.
If you are interested, you should read the details. Because you are missing some key details here. I believe they log all PGP encrypted communication. That would be easy for them to do. I don't know about HTTPS. .hc _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
