Gmail and e-mail privacy
/Wired, as well as many other outlets, is running a story about the privacy concerns with Gmail, Google's proposed service. To me, if you're not using PGP or GPG, you have lost all credibility when talking about e-mail privacy, as you're not even taking any steps to secure yourself. Sending e-mail without GPG or PGP encryption is like writing your message on a post card. Any relay your e-mail passes through can read and store a copy of your e-mail, and any shared wire that your e-mail passes over can be sniffed, and your e-mail read. You can use PGP/GPG on every platform, and there are plugins for a great many e-mail programs as well. I currently use it with Thunderbird, and here's my public key: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32)
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