-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- -=> Quoting In:bryce@digicash.com to Harka <=- In> The non-cpunks that I talk to frequently say that "no bad guys In> would bother to read my e-mail". This is a pretty good assumption, In> because it takes into account (as the cpunks themselves frequently In> fail to do) that there is a _cost_ to illicitly reading e-mail, and In> that as long as the value of reading your private e-mail is less than In> the cost of reading it, you can consider yourself safe. Another point, that most PGP-"uninitiated" (challenged? :)) people fail to realize is the non-individual-based approach to e-mail snooping. Commonly people think, that first they have to be specifically targeted by a "bad guy". But in the times of Echelon and generic key-word-based filtering of _all_ e-mails, that go through certain points (Satellite-Links etc.), nobody has to be specifically targeted anymore, because _everybody's_ e-mail is potentially read. All other things you mentioned are of course valid too besides that. Ciao Harka ... Microsoft - "Where do you want to crash today?" ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAgUBM02gpjltEBIEF0MBAQFy4wf/QIx7s1iRBDIW7VXYFWN6T5xlO2stm7QI +Cl8dz7ZL24nMazVUA+I0GqJjpjEOY7bK5oZwbELTaaD6g6unjoZLb6n5/fiXeaN Dd7LdJ989oqmUxO2fm6F/81OqPIGHQl5UwqOj0hII4AndaIwMJB/kSENXXJXXupI 7G/HWWddSnCzeuTfAzYBUeo1cpAgsBP7zTqyQsVUtoGVhgwbRsdUBX1kqcR7cEsv SX+TZZJZAs9AxTlIoQBuP4hb5/aEZnahb8myomKVY9XbMLBRdFzw6YlF2u/hHyit OqMzn12QVKkflxbMQWj3qCLARuT2wKEg6TeHUFAReSgIV1YSNV2Xsw== =Au+6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption...