> I don't known for sure about encrypted mail but it is known that > https connection information is recorded and stored for future > attacks:
Perhaps. Plausible, even, given storage requirements for connection information. But storing traffic, when 99.999999% of it is good -- that's ridiculous. The reason why I'm so fervent about stomping down on fashionable misinformation, by the way, is because the people propagating these things are *hurting* *people*. Security is as much a state of mind as it is a state of reality. Here in the United States, violent crime is down 50% since the 1990s, and crimes against children are down even more than that. Yet, due to a steady stream of awful news stories, most people feel they're in more danger than ever before, and parents are genuinely afraid to let their kids play outdoors. The last time we've been this safe in our communities was the early 1970s, and we feel like we're under siege. That's no way to live. When people feel like they're under siege they act like they're under siege. Personal relationships fray. People stop trusting each other. Happiness plummets. Suffering increases. We face a lot of threats on the electronic front, yes. We absolutely need to face these threats squarely. If we pretend a real threat doesn't exist, that's terrible for our overall health as a society. But if we pretend a false threat *does* exist... that's just as bad. The possibility of widespread metadata collection is real, troubling, and the free countries of the world need to engage in some spirited discussion about it. The possibility of *every encrypted communication* being intercepted and stored for later exploitation ... is not real, and we need to stop treating it as such.
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