NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants

Re:NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants by jordanb on Saturday June 15, 2013 @09:04PM (#5886922)

Am I missing something? The telcos control many of the internet backbones, and Email isn't encrypted. If the telcos give you unrestricted access, it seems trivial to harvest the contents of email.

FWIR, Google enforcing HTTPS connections to gmail is pretty recent as well: since firesheep, so that's another vector for someone who can read data from the wires.

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Re:NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants by tptacek on Saturday June 15, 2013 @09:08PM (#5886934)

Email is encrypted, far more often than you think it is. If you send email to someone else at Google Mail via Google Mail, your message is never on the Internet except in a retail-level TLS connection to Google Mail. If you send email via Google Mail to someone at some other email provider and that provider does SMTP+TLS, it's also never on the Internet in plaintext.

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