Encryption for privacy [Re: OT: fighting rbl's]

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 00:51, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:28, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Another reason might be that some people might have privacy issues with 
> > their correspondence being stored on intermediate mail server they have 
> > no controll of.
> 
> For such an issue encryption is a better solution.
Agreed

>   Even going straight
> from your system to the advertised MX record you don't really know how
> many or which systems your message may pass through.  
If one looks at the envelope header, the mail actually hops around.

> In addition if
> some one wanted to eaves drop they could access one of the many routers
> your message passes through and capture it that way.  Without encryption
> the message goes in plain text.  Any expectation of privacy when sending
> email should be corrected.  There is none.

I wish all users would start using Linux or at least thunderbird on
windows. This way, communication can be encrypted using GPG. (I've tried
to get outlook to use GPG,via a plugin, but all I ever managed is to
crash outlook.)

In the end, I installed Thunderbird and Enigmail on the "The One Whom
Must Be Obeyed"


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Ow Mun Heng
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