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Posted: 11/20/2012 4:45:56 PM EDT
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552225-38/senate-bill-rewrite-lets-feds-read-your-e-mail-without-warrants/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title

First they were going to require warrants.   Now they're considering giving subpoena power to al least a dozen alphabet agencies.   Sheriffs and DA's propose and approve.

Big flip flop here.  Will this require House approval?
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 4:47:07 PM EDT
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email privacy is a joke
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 4:47:29 PM EDT
[#2]
WTF is email privacy?
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:09:26 PM EDT
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email privacy is a joke



Well yeah, if you're the head of the CIA


Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:10:19 PM EDT
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PGP
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:11:17 PM EDT
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email privacy is a joke


Always was.
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:11:46 PM EDT
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There is nothing private about email. Don't put anything in an email you would be afraid for the whole world to see.
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:14:11 PM EDT
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The ACLU will solve this problem
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:14:11 PM EDT
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They're ratcheting down the control grid.



It's going to be fun when they start giving orders that piss people off and using the grid to enforce them.

Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:14:34 PM EDT
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Quoted:


email privacy is a joke


fixed



 
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:14:53 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Quoted:
email privacy is a joke


Always was.


This

Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:16:57 PM EDT
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Tor will make them spin some cycles reading your grocery list.
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:17:51 PM EDT
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Protection from terrorism; that's what it is.
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:19:08 PM EDT
[#13]
I hope they enjoy HVAC.
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:30:26 PM EDT
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Email will never be secure until all email is sent encrypted.  People are too lazy to make that happen.


 
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:33:40 PM EDT
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This bill has to do with them wanting to access stored data guys, this is different than plaintext network communication. This is a much bigger deal.
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:34:22 PM EDT
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PGP



and gnuPG



thunderbird email client with enigmail/gnupg for windows if thats your thing.





 
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:35:43 PM EDT
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Tor will make them spin some cycles reading your grocery list.




Looking at Tor as a solution is almost as funny as using "email" "privacy" and "expected" in the same sentence
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:37:01 PM EDT
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The .gov is just codifying what its been doing all along. Look at all the FBI PATRIOT Act violations, and how not a thing was done about it.



Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:38:24 PM EDT
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What email privacy? or more like the fixed one above.. what privacy?



Americans dont care so there will be absolutely no privacy.. and no recognizable country soon enough, its boiling faster and still nobody jumps.




 
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:48:52 PM EDT
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PGP
and gnuPGthunderbird email client with enigmail/gnupg for windows if thats your thing.


Yes.  But don't fuck up and use the same pass-phrase for multiple accounts or any of the myriad of other ways to expose yourself.


A recent (excellent as usual) blog post about this with a bunch of good quotes and quality links here:

Bruce Schneier:  E-Mail Security in the Wake of Petraeus
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:50:19 PM EDT
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WTF is email privacy?


This. There is no such thing, especially when dealing with the gov.
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 5:55:13 PM EDT
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Email will never be secure until all email is sent encrypted.  People are too lazy to make that happen.
 


It needs to become standard in ALL email transactions.

Shit, every PACKET needs to be encrypted.  

Link Posted: 11/20/2012 6:02:04 PM EDT
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Quoted:



Quoted:

Email will never be secure until all email is sent encrypted.  People are too lazy to make that happen.

 




It needs to become standard in ALL email transactions.



Shit, every PACKET needs to be encrypted.  



Yep, it needs to be built in. I set up Thunderbird with OpenPGP but I never get to use it because nobody  I email uses it.  In general, people will pick the laziest option with the worst security possible. It would be much better if it was standard, but people would complain.  





 
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 6:11:36 PM EDT
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Even with encryption, if a high enough office wants to read it, it will.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trying-keep-e-mails-secret-004210313.html
Link Posted: 11/20/2012 6:35:57 PM EDT
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Even with encryption, if a high enough office wants to read it, it will.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trying-keep-e-mails-secret-004210313.html


If a high enough office wants it, they'll just do some rubber-hose cryptanalysis on you and get the key.

Link Posted: 11/21/2012 8:52:51 AM EDT
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I think what this article was saying was now (with the proposals discussed in the article) , without any real effort or help, certain agencies (IRS) can subpoena your IP for your e-mail......no warrant (no judge, no court) , no probably cause, no real technology (no NSA or FBI), just laws that purport to pass Constitutional muster.

Quite a turn around from Leahy's original position.
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