Thoughts on the double quoted post? I tend to concur; But perhaps we can create a little list discussion; It seems somewhat up our alley, eh? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Goodbye, Hotmail, MSN, Live.com... Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:14:28 -0500 From: Digital Ebola <digiebola@gmail.com> Reply-To: digi@legions.org To: Lynda <shrdlu@deaddrop.org> CC: Defcon Stuff <DC-Stuff@dc-stuff.org> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Lynda <shrdlu@deaddrop.org> wrote:

One of us trusts Google more than the other. I also have a Yahoo account (I've had it since before there was a Yahoo, and it's actually a rocketmail account, from one of the first free email services), which is necessary to access Flickr. Yep, more loss of privacy.

Not a matter of trust but a matter of risk acceptance. I feel the same way about banks but the entire 1st world seems to have accepted the risk of banking. Internet services are developing the same way. Everyone uses email now and it's hard to get through the world without it. A very large population uses a free email service. When the entire world accepts this risk, you lose the ability to reject the risk. This does not make things right. My prediction: in 20 years or less, you will need special authorization or license to operate your own MTA. It will start out small, such as "registering a legitimate server to be placed on whitelists" then made mandatory by whatever acting government is ruling at the time. Webservers may take the same route. Unauthorized servers will be eliminated. Your privacy is a commodity. Do your economic duty and let people have access to your life. What do you have to hide, Citizen?