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[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Valeri Galtsev
<galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
> Indeed, e-mail is not a secure channel of communication (as everyone of us
> repeats for decades). That is because there are _bad_guys_ doing bad thing
> (sniffing packets)... Now we come to the point that some company collects
> information. In general doing virtually the same thing. And we should feel
> no disrespect to that company, right? I feel it is unfair to the first
> category of guys (the bad ones sniffing network traffic).
>
> Do you not have any problem with that? Because I do ;-(

I don't - for a couple of reasons.  First, google doesn't charge for
the service so I'll use it for what it is: a good place to
collaborate, and ignore the fact that it might be a bad place to keep
secrets.   And public mailing lists are pretty clearly about open
collaboration. Second, your, and the recipient's ISPs are going to be
as bad or worse about allowing government spying.   They don't really
have any choice about that if they want to exist so I don't have a
real problem with that either, except that they charge us all extra
for the capability.

> But alas, it is the majority that rules (sort of "democracy" as opposed to
> "constitutional republic").

Ummm, at this point is it much more a matter of corporate ownership
than anything else. If you don't like the government, you have to buy
a better one.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com