[LINK] UN declares that the right to privacy,

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 21:35 +1100, Kim Holburn wrote:
> > Indeed Jim, you and anyone can have state-of-the-art email privacy right 
> > now, without doing anything radically difficult or special.
> 
> If you can find a secure email server.

Not necessary - just use PGP. Or a certificate from a CA you actually
trust (hint: there are none worthy of your trust).

Yes, GPG/PGP is a (slight) pain to set up. Yes, you need to arrange a
public key exchange before you can exchange secure emails. Yes, some
email programs don't integrate it very well. But you CAN have a secure
email exchange with someone if you want it, at the cost of a little
setup work.

This does not protect the fact of an email exchange, the time of the
exchange, the received list and so on, but it completely protects the
content of the message. Not even the administrators of the servers your
email passes through or is stored on can access the content.

> You still have to trust the server.

Not with GPG/PGP.

Regards, K.

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