Re:Why Can't My Mom Email Me?
by ComodoHacker on Thursday April 11, 2024 @04:55AM
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>this basically comes down to State Actors ... or Everyone Else
This is oversimplification if not misleading. There are also Bad Guys (who aren't state actors), who usually can't reach for your data. But occasionally they can, when rare Planet Parades like Heartbleed or Meltdown make the news. And they are happy to use this one-in-a-lifetime chance to sell access to your data to everyone else.
Re:Why Can't My Mom Email Me?
by marcus_holmes on Thursday April 11, 2024 @11:29AM
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I guess I don't understand how something like Heartbleed can hit you if you don't click on boner-pill ads, Fastmail's servers don't get hit, and you're not installing random apps from random internet folks?
And the article linked from their article (hilarious itself) pointed out that this basically comes down to State Actors (Mossad as the example) or Everyone Else. If it's Mossad then there's nothing anyone else can do to protect you (because they can do secret-squirrel things through special security courts and stuff like installing black boxes on undersea cable routers). If Everyone Else, then the normal run-of-the-mill transport encryption is probably good enough, just don't click on any herbal boner-pill adverts.
tldr; If you want to be protected, you have to do PGP at the local machine level yourself.
[0] Given that Fastmail are Aussies, and that our idiotic government have given the spooks full, secret, access to anything they want, then this is a very real prospect for anyone that five-eyes might be interested in.