IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant

Re:IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant by varjag on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @03:36PM (#5527528)

You can unglue an envelope over steam or on a hot surface.

That's beside the point though. People in general expect their mail correspondence to remain private, although a motivated third party might be able to defeat security.

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Re:IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant by Domenic_S on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @05:09PM (#5528196)

They expect their (physical) mail to remain private because there's a massive legal framework that protects it. There's an entire section of US code regarding the operation and authority of the post office (title 39) and a whole mess of criminal code about protecting the mail (in title 18).

http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/privacy-policy/intelligent-...

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Re:IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant by yew on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @06:16PM (#5528574)

So we can expect our email to be protected after we've successfully lobbied for the establishment of a massive legal framework that protects it, then?

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Re:IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant by Contero on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @06:41PM (#5528716)

So clearly similar laws should exist to protect email, encrypted or not.

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