[LINK] UN declares that the right to privacy,

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 09:19 +1100, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> On 18/12/2013 10:27 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Why use email at all?
> 
> PGP over ftp?

Of course you can GPG-encrypt your message then place it on an FTP
server or similar for download, but that's way less convenient than
email, and doesn't hide any more than email does. The time of the
upload, the fact of the upload, the size of the upload etc are all
visible. The correspondents are visible too, because information about
downloads would also be visible.

> It's pull rather than push, but does that matter if it's less visible?

It's not less visible.

> How much of a trail does ftp leave?

In the logs - as mush as the site admin wants. Sniffable - anything
except the encrypted content. Same as email.

Regards, K.

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