Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for pe...
by havetocharge on Saturday August 13, 2016 @06:44PM
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Heh. You might be overestimating your own importance.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for pe...
by loup-vaillant on Saturday August 13, 2016 @07:38PM
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Huh? What makes you say that? This is not about me, this is about everyone getting spied on, and about anyone wanting to keep emails decentralised —which by the way has some import for everyone, not just computer geeks.
Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for pe...
by havetocharge on Sunday August 14, 2016 @04:45PM
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I don't buy into the whole 'everyone is getting spied on'. While the minority of individuals have valuable information, everything about the masses is completely predictable and mundane. There is nothing interesting about an average person, their lives are identical to others and there is no point in spying to get the information already known.
Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for pe...
by loup-vaillant on Monday August 15, 2016 @01:06AM
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> I don't buy into the whole 'everyone is getting spied on'.
They are. At least the NSA is doing it at a global scale —thanks Mr Snowden for turning this "conspiracy theory" into an established fact.
> There is nothing interesting about an average person
Until there is. At that point, all they have to do is a nice search query into their ludicrously deep archive, so they can dig up whatever wasn't exactly average about that particular person. There has to be a trigger of course, but if you set one off, you'll be put on a watch list for higher scrutiny —at best.