Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down
by cabalamat on Friday March 04, 2011 @06:11AM
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The problem is that gmail stores your email on Google's server, and that the US government can therefore coerce them to get that information.
The solution is for everyone to use encrypted email, where the decrypted data only exist on your hard disk. Governments and powerful people can still get at it, but to do so they have to burgle your house, which costs them time and money (so they can't do it to everyone), popularity (in states that have to care about what the public thinks, they can't burgle everyone), and also alerts the suspect.
So why don't people do this? I use gmail because it's convenient. The solution to this problem is obviously to make locally-stored email as easy to read as gmail.
As it happens, I'm working on a project ("Shout!" is the current working title) that aims to do just that (among other things).
The solution is for everyone to use encrypted email, where the decrypted data only exist on your hard disk. Governments and powerful people can still get at it, but to do so they have to burgle your house, which costs them time and money (so they can't do it to everyone), popularity (in states that have to care about what the public thinks, they can't burgle everyone), and also alerts the suspect.
So why don't people do this? I use gmail because it's convenient. The solution to this problem is obviously to make locally-stored email as easy to read as gmail.
As it happens, I'm working on a project ("Shout!" is the current working title) that aims to do just that (among other things).